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He was a boy
She was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious
He was a punk
She did ballet
What more can I say
He wanted her
She'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well
But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
They had a problem with his baggy clothes
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
She had a pretty face
But her head was up in space
She needed to come back down to earth
Five years from now
She sits at home
Feeding the baby she's all alone
She turns on t.v
Guess who she sees
Skater boy rockin' up MTV
She calls up her friends
They already know
And they've all got
Tickets to see his show
She tags along
Stands in the crowd
Looks up at the man that she turned down
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?
Sorry girl but you missed out
Well tough luck that boy's mine now
We are more than just good friends
This is how the story ends
Too bad that you couldn't see,
See the man that boy could be
There is more that meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside
He's just a boy
And I'm just a girl
Can I make it any more obvious
We are in love
Haven't you heard
How we rock each others world
I'm with the skater boy
I said see you later boy
I'll be back stage after the show
I'll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know
I'm with the skater boy
I said see you later boy
I'll be back stage after the show
I'll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know
She was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious
He was a punk
She did ballet
What more can I say
He wanted her
She'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well
But all of her friends
Stuck up their nose
They had a problem with his baggy clothes
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
She had a pretty face
But her head was up in space
She needed to come back down to earth
Five years from now
She sits at home
Feeding the baby she's all alone
She turns on t.v
Guess who she sees
Skater boy rockin' up MTV
She calls up her friends
They already know
And they've all got
Tickets to see his show
She tags along
Stands in the crowd
Looks up at the man that she turned down
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?
He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?
Sorry girl but you missed out
Well tough luck that boy's mine now
We are more than just good friends
This is how the story ends
Too bad that you couldn't see,
See the man that boy could be
There is more that meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside
He's just a boy
And I'm just a girl
Can I make it any more obvious
We are in love
Haven't you heard
How we rock each others world
I'm with the skater boy
I said see you later boy
I'll be back stage after the show
I'll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know
I'm with the skater boy
I said see you later boy
I'll be back stage after the show
I'll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know
Lyrics submitted by Visions Of Love
Track duration: 03:24
"Sk8er Boi" as written by Avril Ramona Lavigne, Scott Alspach, Lauren Christy, Graham Edwards
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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'he' was a punk. she did ballet.
So you see, the 'boi' is what you could refer to as a dyke, with a similar style to say 'Shane' from the L word.
The skater babydyke was interested in a prissy prom princess in the first instance, but then it develops, and she finds she's more interested in similarly styled girls, such as Avril Lavigne.
There is a thinly veiled allusion to lesbian sex too. When she sings 'slamming on his guitar', what she actually means is that, she is the guitar, and the 'boi' like to 'strum' her (Avril) and they 'rock each others worlds', because of course, as every lesbian attests, lesbian sex is far better than heterosexual sex.
Then 5 years later she only thinks she's moved on with her life when all of a sudden this guy is in the spotlight, and now all of her friends have completely changed points of view. The thing is, now that the guy is famous and likable, she wants him back. She just can't have him back because by then, another girl already has him for herself. So of course she comes to regret not taking the risk 5 years earlier, when she could have had everything.
This song is so relatable in my case. I've liked my best guy friend now for 7 months, but to my total disappointment, by then he'd already gotten himself a new girl, even though he admitted to liking me last summer. It makes me wish I could go back and change everything that happened between us back then, but the past is the past. You just can't. So the most I could do is let it out now and tell him how I really feel about him, and that's what I did.
And to anyone who's going through the same thing I am now: take the risk. You never know whether it'll be worth it in the end. And if it isn't, then there's plenty of fish out in the sea (I would know). So don't be scared or hold back your feelings-- make your move before it's too late. Don't be like the girl in the song.
it gives out messages to girls out their who have uncool guys after them to take the risk and if you like them go for them sod your friends they will respect you more for being you then a spineless yes person and if they dont they're not true friends
the song is basically about a girl turning down a guy because her friends didn't like him because they thought he was a loser but he became famous in the end and the friends suddenly liked him and the girl wanted him but avril has got him by then (the girl must feel like a right clot in this story), sometimes i feel abit like the sk8er boi because im the coolest guy out their... but hey ho something will turn up
<3 you avril
I never really got this song until I saw a fan-made video of it (Search Sk8er Boi Sims 2 on youtube) when I was about 10 or 11. I think that what she was trying to say with this was basically "Don't miss out on anything or you'll regret it later." Verse by verse:
She likes him, and he likes her, but she's too afraid to lose her status to let him know.
She finds somebody else, but as soon as she sees him as a rock star, she wants him again.
When she gets to the concert, she finds out that the friends who were so very against her dating him have changed to a point unrecognizable to her, and he's moved on and found somebody else. She's lost everything that she could have had because she was scared.
She should have taken the risk.
I know how this feels. I had a crush on one of my best guy friends, and I spent the last nine weeks of school freaking out because I wasn't sure what to do, but once I told him, I realized that it was a risk that I had had to take.
A message to any girls out there: Take the risk. Jump off that cliff. You like him? Let him know. He just might be worth the risk and if he isn't then he shouldn't matter to you anyway. <3