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| John Mellencamp – Hurts So Good Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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also, when he says 'i ain't as green as you are young', it's because she still thinks he's just a young boy having fun and he's not ready to change his ways so quickly for her because he doesn't know about love, but he's just doesn't show on the outside that he does know enough to change quickly so he says that "isn't as green" on the inside "as she is young" saying that maybe if anything she's the one who is too young to understand love, so in a way he's taking the ball and saying he knows what to do with it and then throwing it back to her court to say you look pretty young yourself are you sure you know how to play ball, but at the same time he draws a parallel between the two of them, to tell her that they have something in common which is that they both look inexperienced on the outside, but they each know more than they let on, so maybe they are two of a kind and should be together for that reason, and he can't think of a more perfect match, so he doesn't care what it takes, how much hurting it takes, because he can only see himself truly happy in the end if he's with someone like him, who looks greener than they really are, because that's the only person who can really understand how he feels, because people probably look at her and treat her the same way they treat him, and he thinks if they are finally together, two of a kind, they can finally get over how people see them as greenhorns, because when people see them together, they will obviously think differently when they see how much they really know, after they see what they see them doing together. |
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| John Mellencamp – Hurts So Good Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think when he says he 'longs for those young boy days' he wants to go back to using cocaine, (just watch the video, he touches his nose when he sings that line) but now he's older and there's a girl who expects more out of him, and he's trying to explain that as much as the kicking the addiction really hurts he thinks she's worth it, that is when he tells the girl to make it hurt so good, he's telling her that if being with her is the choice he has to make over the drugs, he will gladly feel all the pain from withdrawls, and wishing he could go back to those young boy days etc, over staying in those days, he's telling her she's worth the pain because either she is so much better or he just thinks it's time to grow up anyway, and she's the one he wants to make him grow up. When he said he ain't made no big deals, he's assuring her that he can get away from cocaine safely because it wasn't really his business, he was just having fun with it, assuring that he's not going to get killed for not holding up his 'obligations' as a drug dealer or anything, he's just admitting to the girl that yes he had some fun with cocaine, but it wasn't any serious business, 'we can walk around all day', so noone is going to recognize me and shoot at us for being a coke dealer, and he was just being young and dumb, and as much fun as it was, and as much as he'd like to go back he's ready to move on and he's telling her that he doesn't have any strings holding him to cocaine, just good memories holding him to it, but now he wants to make new memories with her instead. |
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