I actually just came back from a Counting Crows concert tonight at the Allentown Fairgrounds in PA. Adam said that this song is about going on a tour for a year, or whatever amount of time, coming back home and realizing that while all your friends lives may have changed in some way(kids, marriage, what have you), you are still in the same place, nothing has really changed for you. He said that it was like Peter Pan....who never changed, never grew up, then there was Wendy, she had to grow up, but was this tortured wounded girl. Then the lost boys (his friends) that all grew up and left.....
I actually just came back from a Counting Crows concert tonight at the Allentown Fairgrounds in PA. Adam said that this song is about going on a tour for a year, or whatever amount of time, coming back home and realizing that while all your friends lives may have changed in some way(kids, marriage, what have you), you are still in the same place, nothing has really changed for you. He said that it was like Peter Pan....who never changed, never grew up, then there was Wendy, she had to grow up, but was this tortured wounded girl. Then the lost boys (his friends) that all grew up and left.....