@jslatz This must be the correct meaning. It seems like the journalist knows personal info that he doesn't want the public to know. She tries to get information out of him by trying to sympathise with his boyhood experiences: "I know what it's like to be dead, I know what it's like to be sad." But he refuses to give away anything, so he says that everything was fine when he was young. He wants to leave it at that and end the interview.
@jslatz This must be the correct meaning. It seems like the journalist knows personal info that he doesn't want the public to know. She tries to get information out of him by trying to sympathise with his boyhood experiences: "I know what it's like to be dead, I know what it's like to be sad." But he refuses to give away anything, so he says that everything was fine when he was young. He wants to leave it at that and end the interview.
This song was supposedly written about an arguement John had with a journalast during an interview.
@jslatz This must be the correct meaning. It seems like the journalist knows personal info that he doesn't want the public to know. She tries to get information out of him by trying to sympathise with his boyhood experiences: "I know what it's like to be dead, I know what it's like to be sad." But he refuses to give away anything, so he says that everything was fine when he was young. He wants to leave it at that and end the interview.
@jslatz This must be the correct meaning. It seems like the journalist knows personal info that he doesn't want the public to know. She tries to get information out of him by trying to sympathise with his boyhood experiences: "I know what it's like to be dead, I know what it's like to be sad." But he refuses to give away anything, so he says that everything was fine when he was young. He wants to leave it at that and end the interview.