Boy Lilikoi

I think jw7 really got a good jest of the song with the first paragraph, very well done.

Personally, I think the song is completely metaphorical, as previously stated. But what I think is different is it's not so much about a pet, but a person.

"I want to be a Lilikoi Boy, Lilikoi. You grind your claws, you howl, you growl, unafraid of Hoi Polloi. You run, you're free, you climb endless trees - you reignite. You growl, you howl, you show your teeth, You bite, it's alright."

The relation with the fruit being they're bright coloured, yes, but thick in skin. Relating that to where you can either say, the boy in subject is either thick skinned, that he's tough and unafraid, or that he shows one side of him - a bright, daring boy, like most young boys are, but does it to hide his true nature through his actions, that he shows a willingness to fight to be himself and to not grow up. That he protects himself through his actions and keeps his true self preserved through the shell he creates because he doesn't want to be crushed by the weight of the world, or the "Hoi Polloi", he fights them away and their cruel nature by his actions and attitude.

Either way, he's of envy to the narrator. In fact, I think it's safe to say he's talking about himself.

"Wild be my boy, you burn so bright, you illuminate. One day you're out, you give up the fight, you slow down heart-rate."

He doesn't want the world and it's heaviness and the course of life to slow him down and take all the light and the beauty he had in himself and that he saw in everything, set in everything around him, right out of him, as it seems to have begun doing. He doesn't want the world to open up the shell and to take everything he has, and he doesn't want to be empty past the shell he created as he grows older.

"Say no more, use your eyes, the world goes and flutter by. Use your eyes, you know you are."

I think he's saying to see what the world does to you. The second line saying that the boy does, that the he knows he does and that's why he is like he is. He's saying not just see the beauty of the world, but to see the fall of of people as it begins to come head on, and to be different than the others, to not lose your soul like so many others do over time. The idea flows as the song progresses:

"We all grow old, use your life, the world goes and flutter by. Use your life, you know you are."

"Electricity wires are down, Rainbow colours fading to brown. Adventurous smile shifting to frown, Courageous boy, now you're a clown. Your antarctic hair, off with the crown, Your spirited friend's now a ghost town. You run."

This being about how the world changes. Like he said, to use his eyes, to see the change that has happened. This is the change. The conversation is over, the beauty is gone, and everyone and everything has changed but the boy. He's pinned for it and is called the clown, the fool, yet his friends are the ones who from the inside are empty, from the outside age.

He doesn't want to live as the adult he's begun to be, he doesn't want to age. He wants everything to still be beautiful. But, no one around him sees the world like that. He doesn't want to be there, where he's being forced to give up his inner self and die to his true nature in many ways. He doesn't want to be like everyone else, who slowly dies in their age, both on the inside and the outside. He refuses it. He runs away from it.

So generally, the song is just about not growing up. Like someone said, it reminded them of Peter Pan. It really is like that. This song is definitely my favourite on the album, it's brilliant.