Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
[Chorus]
I'll do anything
For my sweet sixteen,
And I'll do anything
For little run away child
Gave my heart an engagement ring,
She took everything,
Everything I gave her,
Oh sweet sixteen
Built a moon
For a rocking chair,
I never guessed it would
Rock her far from here
Oh, oh, oh.
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy brain
And filled it in.
[Chorus]
Well, memories may burn you,
Memories grow older as people can
They just get colder
Like sweet sixteen
I see it's clear
Baby, that you are
All through here
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
[Chorus]
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy house
To house her in.
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy brain
And filled it in.
And I do anything
For my sweet sixteen
Oh, I do anything
For run away girl.
Yeah, sad and lonely and blue.
Yeah, gettin' over you.
How, how do you think it feels
Yeah to get up in the morning, get over you.
Up in the morning, get over you.
Wipe away the tears, get over you, get over, get over...
My sweet sixteen,
Oh runaway child
Oh sweet sixteen
Little runaway girl.
Gave my heart an engagement ring,
She left everything,
Everything I gave her,
Oh sweet sixteen
Built a moon
For a rocking chair,
I never guessed it would
Rock her far from here
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy house
And house her in.
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy house
And house her in.
[Chorus]
Do anything
For my sweet sixteen
I'll do anything
For little runaway girl
Little runaway girl
Oh sweet sixteen
Oh sweet sixteen
Oh
I'll do anything
For my sweet sixteen,
And I'll do anything
For little run away child
Gave my heart an engagement ring,
She took everything,
Everything I gave her,
Oh sweet sixteen
Built a moon
For a rocking chair,
I never guessed it would
Rock her far from here
Oh, oh, oh.
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy brain
And filled it in.
[Chorus]
Well, memories may burn you,
Memories grow older as people can
They just get colder
Like sweet sixteen
I see it's clear
Baby, that you are
All through here
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
[Chorus]
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy house
To house her in.
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy brain
And filled it in.
And I do anything
For my sweet sixteen
Oh, I do anything
For run away girl.
Yeah, sad and lonely and blue.
Yeah, gettin' over you.
How, how do you think it feels
Yeah to get up in the morning, get over you.
Up in the morning, get over you.
Wipe away the tears, get over you, get over, get over...
My sweet sixteen,
Oh runaway child
Oh sweet sixteen
Little runaway girl.
Gave my heart an engagement ring,
She left everything,
Everything I gave her,
Oh sweet sixteen
Built a moon
For a rocking chair,
I never guessed it would
Rock her far from here
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy house
And house her in.
Someone's built a candy castle
For my sweet sixteen
Someone's built a candy house
And house her in.
[Chorus]
Do anything
For my sweet sixteen
I'll do anything
For little runaway girl
Little runaway girl
Oh sweet sixteen
Oh sweet sixteen
Oh
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Sweet Sixteen Lyrics as written by Billy Idol
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Billy Idol's Sweet Sixteen is actually based on a true story. In 1923, a 26 year old Latvian man named Edward Leedskalnin was jilted by his fiancee Agnes Scuffs (ten years his junior, whom he nicknamed Sweet Sixteen), the day before their wedding. Leedskalnin moved to South Miami, and in a failed attempt to win back the one he loved, he spent the next 25 years carving this structure ... known today as the Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida.
Thanks, I knew there must be a simple meaning to the lyrics of this song.
@AlexandriaDaniels thanks Loved the song and knew about the poor guy that got ditched a day before his wedding (like seriously even back then who does that prob less than 12 hrs before the big day?) but didnt know exactly what "someones building candy castles" actually meant ... apart from him building the coral castle in memory of her .. Id love to of known what her reason for ditching him (and so close to the time too) was and if she ever regretted it .. maybe she thought a man that was nearly 30 was too old for someone thats barely not even 20 ... even with his $$
Big Big Idol Fan, and this without a doubt one of my favorite songs of his. I love everything about the dual meaning in this song. Both the fact that it is about the story of Ed Leeds and Coral Castle and his sweet sixteen, the turned to stone which implies both immortalized in stone as well as turned to stone as in heart turned to stone, also the fact that it applies to just about all doomed young love. True young love is the purest thing in the entire world and it is also the most vulnerable thing in the entire world. Most people never experience one day of true pure love in their entire lives. When you have had it and lost it, you know you will never feel exactly the same way about another person again. This song will always make me think about my own sweet sixteen. I know she sometimes is out there looking down on me, and I want her to know that I will never forget her and will never stop tending her garden of stone until the day we can be together again.
@VitalIdol me too its my fav song :D had a bit of a crush on Billy esp as he looked in late 1980s and when he did this video :D <br /> have to say i watched it again and Im 41 and he still makes the heart flutter haha is he still singing (and around) wonder what he looks like now ?
@VitalIdol me too its my fav song :D had a bit of a crush on Billy esp as he looked in late 1980s and when he did this video :D <br /> have to say i watched it again and Im 41 and he still makes the heart flutter haha is he still singing (and around) wonder what he looks like now ? and hey do ya know for sure shes passed on she could be alive and well somewhere ?
@rachelisfun She died two days before Thanksgiving on November 21st, 2000, officially at 4:46 PM from a ruptured descending Aorta caused by a car accident. <br /> <br /> She called me on the phone at 3:15 and told me they were taking her to the hospital, but not to worry and I didn't need to come because she was ok, just sore and bruised. Not even ten minutes later I caught of whiff of the smell of her hair and got a really bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. I called her cell phone but she didn't answer. I tried to tell myself she can't talk in the ambulance, but I knew I was lying to myself. <br /> <br /> I drove like a maniac to get to the hospital, but she apparently she went to cardiac arrest in the ambulance. I wasn't even allowed to know anything about her condition until her mom got there around 4:30, because we were not related, but I already knew in my heart that she was never coming back.<br /> <br /> Thanksgiving has always been really hard, even though I have a wonderful wife and a family of my own, it's still hard. I will always lover her and miss her.
good song
Where are all the comments...Billy is a fucking GOD
This is my fav Billy Idol Song ever
I heard its about a Castle in the UK that a man built for his young bride and it actually has a Crecent Moon Rocking chair and stuff...at least thats what I read or heard somewhere...
and Billy said something to that effect at his concert before they played it:)
Devils Playgound MArch 22nd people!!!!
I love this song..because of the music, lyrics and billy's amazing voice........one of my favorites.
i love billy idol and he's great rock..1 of the best i've ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!
my secret love in billy idol. i think this song is pretty self explanatory unless theres a hidden meaning that one cannt get without thinking deeply. this song makes me sad. the first time i heard it it made me feel depressed in a beautiful kind of way. and i still feel the same when i hear it now. everyone should not love billy idol. he is for us hardcore kids and thats it. no fucktarts. i love you billy.
@Paradox..Charisma yeah was based on edward leeds (he created the coral castle in florida) At the age of 26 he was engaged to marry Agnes Skuvst who was ten years younger (think this was around 1910 ? However, the girl who Leedskalnin later referred to as his "Sweet Sixteen" broke their engagement the day before the wedding
AstnPwrvch was actually right about everything except the castle being in the UK. The song is about Coral Castle, a momument built is FL, USA by a Latvia born stone mason for his lost love. The sixteen year old bride (Agnes Scoff) left her fiance the day before her wedding (in persuit of another man) to Edward Leedskalnin age 26. It is very sad really, Edward deemed "Sweet Sixteen" his one true love, and built the entire monument for her, unfortuantely after the fact that she left him. =( It always makes me wonder how she must have felt after doing so? In her mind did she make the right choice and was she happy? Or did she spend the rest of her life regreting such a hastey decesion?
For more info on Coral Castle you can visit their website:
CoralCastle.com
There is a whole biography on Edward Leedskalnin, he was a very fascinating person.
actually the girl was named Hermine Lusis [lusis - lynx [latvian]], that Agnes Scuffs thing is fictional by Edward to protect her.<br /> and she left him right by altar in the moment when she had to say "I do"
I have always wondered about that too Queen, and in general have always wondered how someone can come to a snap judgment like that at least not regret it on some level. It is pretty clear that Ed really loved her. I guess the real question is did she really love him in return, or was she even really capable of loving someone as much as Ed obviously did? <br /> <br /> Of course, then there is the whole alternate theory that Ed's "Sweet Sixteen" was a clever cover story which allowed him to leave the blueprints for how he constructed the castle through the natural magnetic properties of the universe. Perhaps sweet sixteen = Mandelbrot set = Solomon's knot = Coral Castle. <br /> <br /> All in all, I prefer the romantic story. It is more poetic
I love this song and before I knew what the actual verses said (the true story of the song), I would imagine myself the sweet sixteen, on an adventure like jennifer conneley in Labyrinth... and Billy Idol a mysterious figure, waiting somewhere in the darkness to spirit me away.
The true story is such a shame. If you cannot satisfy someone, even a coral castle of true awesomeness cannot bring her back. Poor guy. Even for a girl who loves wonderous, childlike fantasies, such as the neverending story, or labyrinth, and all that goes with it, (or something more modern lol like lots of pretty shoes) it is only transient, you need a basis in reality.
I think this is a song a lot of romantic men can relate to- the disillusionment after jilted teenage love. The singer tells about how he gave his love everything and would do anything for her, and she took it all. He, like so many young men, wrongly believed that by satisfying everyone of his love's desires that he would secure her love and devotion. Paradoxically, the satiation often leaves young women unaffected and eager for something else: Enter the man with the Candy Castle.
The candy castle is just a metaphor for whatever enticed Sweet sixteen, which was probably the advances of some other dude. No one wants everything given to them.It makes life boring and empty. In this state, our sweet sixteen was suceptible to anything new and alluring. (the little hussy)
Everyone enjoys a bit of a challenge.Young men (women too) need to bridle their passion if they want love to last. You need to always hold something back to keep the flame alive. Afterall, if as children we got all the candy we ever wanted, it wouldn't be "candy" now would it?