leading back to the hurricane idea.
The reference to "not looking a thing like Jesus" suggests that it will only end the same as it always does anyway. The boy looks like the gentleman she imagined, but in the end, will still end up with a broken heart, because only the boy who does look like 'Jesus' will be able to remove the Devil's temptation and make her no longer self destructive. This is all metaphorically speaking of course; i read no religious context into this, nor am i religious myself.
A long-winded explanation, but that's how i view the song. I love it too. It's also my favourite song to play on Guitar Hero 3.">
When You Were Young Meanings & Lyrics Discussion | SongMeanings
leading back to the hurricane idea.
The reference to "not looking a thing like Jesus" suggests that it will only end the same as it always does anyway. The boy looks like the gentleman she imagined, but in the end, will still end up with a broken heart, because only the boy who does look like 'Jesus' will be able to remove the Devil's temptation and make her no longer self destructive. This is all metaphorically speaking of course; i read no religious context into this, nor am i religious myself.
A long-winded explanation, but that's how i view the song. I love it too. It's also my favourite song to play on Guitar Hero 3." />
I actually have a more cynical view to this song. Rather than a boy 'saving' a girl through love or redemption or whatever, the girl is instead a bit of a compulsive self-sabotager; manipulating people and their feelings, whether she means to or not.
"Waiting on some beautiful boy
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness"
It's like she's waiting for the next victim. The next pawn in her little game, but she wants out. She doesn't want to keep breaking up with these lovers and actually try to find something special in them. She takes their forgiveness and throws it asunder, quickly returning to her promiscuous or unfaithful behaviour.
"Watch it now, here he comes" reinforces this; she's like a predator on the prowl for her next victim, ready to pounce.
"Can we climb this mountain? I don't know
Higher now than ever before" simply relates to her asking herself if she can overcome this behaviour, if he can actually help to change her.
The reference to a hurricane from "when you were young" simply means, in my eyes, from the time she started to behave this way and send herself on a downward spiral of misusing the trust of those who gave love to her. The constant reference to "when you were young" is a time of innocense, when you're a child or young teenager and dream of having the perfect life / house / job / lover someday, as opposed to now when you are who are you and you see the world for the darker place that it really is - full of vice and smoke and mirrors.
"They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet
You don't have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while" This is simply referring to the fact that playing the fast lane lifestyle of "doing what you want, when you want" may not be all it's cracked up to be; such people still suffer. It also shows the narrator's(?) temptation. You don't have to go nuts, but it's 'okay' to indulge once in a while. Perhaps flirt, perhaps tell a white lie. Which can spiral out of control -> leading back to the hurricane idea.
The reference to "not looking a thing like Jesus" suggests that it will only end the same as it always does anyway. The boy looks like the gentleman she imagined, but in the end, will still end up with a broken heart, because only the boy who does look like 'Jesus' will be able to remove the Devil's temptation and make her no longer self destructive. This is all metaphorically speaking of course; i read no religious context into this, nor am i religious myself.
A long-winded explanation, but that's how i view the song. I love it too. It's also my favourite song to play on Guitar Hero 3.
@DeLuca I feel really attached to this song and I feel like your interpretation is how It relates to my life,I relate to it song because it reminds me about my ex and how she manipulated to think that we where lovers but really she used me to see if she was bisexual or lesbian. The next time I seen her she was with a girl and it made me feel like I was Mr. Brightside.
@DeLuca I feel really attached to this song and I feel like your interpretation is how It relates to my life,I relate to it song because it reminds me about my ex and how she manipulated to think that we where lovers but really she used me to see if she was bisexual or lesbian. The next time I seen her she was with a girl and it made me feel like I was Mr. Brightside.
I actually have a more cynical view to this song. Rather than a boy 'saving' a girl through love or redemption or whatever, the girl is instead a bit of a compulsive self-sabotager; manipulating people and their feelings, whether she means to or not.
"Waiting on some beautiful boy To save you from your old ways You play forgiveness"
It's like she's waiting for the next victim. The next pawn in her little game, but she wants out. She doesn't want to keep breaking up with these lovers and actually try to find something special in them. She takes their forgiveness and throws it asunder, quickly returning to her promiscuous or unfaithful behaviour. "Watch it now, here he comes" reinforces this; she's like a predator on the prowl for her next victim, ready to pounce.
"Can we climb this mountain? I don't know Higher now than ever before" simply relates to her asking herself if she can overcome this behaviour, if he can actually help to change her.
The reference to a hurricane from "when you were young" simply means, in my eyes, from the time she started to behave this way and send herself on a downward spiral of misusing the trust of those who gave love to her. The constant reference to "when you were young" is a time of innocense, when you're a child or young teenager and dream of having the perfect life / house / job / lover someday, as opposed to now when you are who are you and you see the world for the darker place that it really is - full of vice and smoke and mirrors.
"They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet You don't have to drink right now But you can dip your feet Every once in a little while" This is simply referring to the fact that playing the fast lane lifestyle of "doing what you want, when you want" may not be all it's cracked up to be; such people still suffer. It also shows the narrator's(?) temptation. You don't have to go nuts, but it's 'okay' to indulge once in a while. Perhaps flirt, perhaps tell a white lie. Which can spiral out of control -> leading back to the hurricane idea.
The reference to "not looking a thing like Jesus" suggests that it will only end the same as it always does anyway. The boy looks like the gentleman she imagined, but in the end, will still end up with a broken heart, because only the boy who does look like 'Jesus' will be able to remove the Devil's temptation and make her no longer self destructive. This is all metaphorically speaking of course; i read no religious context into this, nor am i religious myself.
A long-winded explanation, but that's how i view the song. I love it too. It's also my favourite song to play on Guitar Hero 3.
@DeLuca I feel really attached to this song and I feel like your interpretation is how It relates to my life,I relate to it song because it reminds me about my ex and how she manipulated to think that we where lovers but really she used me to see if she was bisexual or lesbian. The next time I seen her she was with a girl and it made me feel like I was Mr. Brightside.
@DeLuca I feel really attached to this song and I feel like your interpretation is how It relates to my life,I relate to it song because it reminds me about my ex and how she manipulated to think that we where lovers but really she used me to see if she was bisexual or lesbian. The next time I seen her she was with a girl and it made me feel like I was Mr. Brightside.