i love this song. I think its very pretty actually, its about youth, and theres a bitter sweetness to the personal refelctions Roger put into it, the way he'd scuff up the streets with his buddies with "endlessly restless feet" and "broadened our minds more in the pool hall than we did in the school hall".... the sadness of the breakups on those bleaksteets, or first time witnesses of the nightlife-- of the lights and of the fun... wanting to be something great, and how even though your troubles are less back then, there seems to be all the more reason to live and feel the extremes of life, laughing crying, living, dying.
u gota listen 2 it in the rain cos it makes it rock even more!!! its all about lokin back on those teenage years when you are addamant to be something then realised that u didnt try hard enough wen u had the chance so now ur just left with ur mind and your memorys
Is it a song about being bored or something? All I know is that its Roger Taylors best song. Its great.
Is it a song about being bored or something? All I know is that its Roger Taylors best song. Its great.
It's about being a lethargic teenager. In the same ilk as Tenement Funster, also a Roger Taylor classic, and could possibly be compared to Loser in the End, although that's about parents losing the respect of their teenage offspring through overprotectiveness
I think it's about how the world seems the same when you're a teenager, and wanting to be more than everyone else, but everyone just telling you that it'll never happen, because you're a "downtown" kid, someone without any prospects and someone who wasted their whole life and you just want to prove them wrong, but can't ...
And there are lyrics missing at the very end, but I can't remember what they are.
The lyrics missing at the end are:
"I think I'll be Clint Eastwood No, Jimi Hendrix, he looks good Let's try William the Conqueror Now who else do I like?"
I got the impression that the song was being told by a middle aged man recalling his teenage years. He always wanted to be something special when he was younger, but failed, so now he's just a lazy, discouraged man.
But Roger wasn't a middle aged man when this was released. Whatever. I love this song. It comes close to being my favourite roger song under Tenement Funster.
I love it.
"Half of the time We'd broaden our minds More in the poolhall than we did in the schoolhall"
I can relate to that. You can spend hours trying to teach kids about stuff they don't care about, but they don't learn anything. When they go to hang out and talk about stuff, conversations can lead to mysteries. It has happened to me a few times
I didn't mean that Roger was a middle aged man...I meant that he was telling the song from the point of view of a middle aged man recalling his youth. That's just the impression I got anyway...