| The Vaccines – Family Friend Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't think it is about growing up per se. I think it tells a story about a guy at an in between age like around mid twenties to mid thirties. Where he is not young but not old, he still feels young and wants to continue to be young but time is going by and he's aging "You wanna get young but you're just getting older". "They've all got their opinions but then what do they know If you can't go back, where the hell do you go? These lines describe how he's acting too young for his age and people are judging him for it. But if he can't go back to a young age where does he go from there? if youth is what he wants "Does everybody really feel as high as a kite? Half baked girl Hey, I'm hardly surprised Snake eyes disguise everybody's lies Faded nail marks on pale thighs and an awkward secret that someone denies And now you're trying to get yourself back in Come on in" These lines I think tie in together the meaning and the title of the song: Family friend. The guy is friend of a family and is left alone with the daughter of the family. He does marijuana with her or some other kind of drug to get eachother high: "half baked girl" The faded nail marks on pale thighs could mean he tried to forcibly have sex with her(rape?) or they had rough sex. The awkward secret could be their copulation that they do not want to own up to. You're trying to get yourself back in, come on in" could be a sexual innuendo and double entendre. He's trying to get himself back in to youth by being with this younger girl and doing drugs with her, something teenagers do. It could also mean "come on in" as in being tempted/seduced to have sex with her. Just my opinion. Not sure how accurate the true meaning is. |
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