When kids grow up, they leave the suburbs, hence "the war on the suburbs"; also, urbanization is constantly trying to make the suburbs more like the cities, more technology, more transportation, more people, less personality. My town has recently begun building a new freeway and a new high-speed railway, and I can really understand what the singer means when he says his town is disappearing. I am leaving for college in the next two years, and my town is changing all around me already. I can't imagine what it will look like when I finally come back.
And about the friends - they are childhood friends, the ones you said you would be friends forever with, but you grow up, and you lose touch. My friends and I all go to different high schools and we are too different now. We're growing apart. And this is what he means.
Now that he's growing older, he sees that the drive to escape the suburbs is gone, and the suburbs seems like a much nicer place to live than the large, impersonal cities preferred by young people.
When kids grow up, they leave the suburbs, hence "the war on the suburbs"; also, urbanization is constantly trying to make the suburbs more like the cities, more technology, more transportation, more people, less personality. My town has recently begun building a new freeway and a new high-speed railway, and I can really understand what the singer means when he says his town is disappearing. I am leaving for college in the next two years, and my town is changing all around me already. I can't imagine what it will look like when I finally come back.
And about the friends - they are childhood friends, the ones you said you would be friends forever with, but you grow up, and you lose touch. My friends and I all go to different high schools and we are too different now. We're growing apart. And this is what he means.
Now that he's growing older, he sees that the drive to escape the suburbs is gone, and the suburbs seems like a much nicer place to live than the large, impersonal cities preferred by young people.