Young Girl

I feel you are terribly wrong danya145, the fact that she could deceive him means shes not(!!) 8, but 15 minimum. And he could be like 27 or something, he doesn't have to be 80! Do you think that just because he fell in love with this girl he should sit in jail??? You make me sick! It's not like he can control his feeling for crying out loud! that's why his pain is so deep. Imagine yourself falling in love with some girl that looks 20, but it turns out that she's 15. That hurts, and it can happen! The poor guy.... Anyway, that a great song:-)

I think of a young man around 24, 25 who's fallen for a 15-16 year old, and it's pretty much her fault. He says that she hid her youth and lied to him, and now he's heartbroken because he's fallen for her, and seriously needs to let her go. GREAT SONG

I thought it was kind of obvious that he wasn't engaging in a relationship with the girl "on purpose." By that, I mean that he didn't know she was as young as she was.

You've kept the secret of your youth You led me to believe you're old enough To give me love And now it hurts to know the truth

^ Obviously, she had lied/led him to believe otherwise about her age.

Before he knew, however, he had fallen in love with her. When he finds out, he's appalled with himself, and tries to convince her (and himself) that the love is not real, and should not exist inside his mind anymore.

Interesting song written at a time when many pop stars had relationships with underage girls. Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and even Elvis all had relationships with teenage girls who were much too young.

However the sentiment of the singer of this song is that he has been fooled by a young girl he believed was old enough. He wants her to go before they go too far.

I doubt this song would or could have been made today.

Most of the lyrics should be read at face value, however the first verse especially hides common terms that, at the time this song was released, were used to disguise adult concepts unsuitable for airplay. For example any song from around the 1960's that uses the word 'charms' in this way is talking about breasts.

With all the charms of a woman [With fully developed breasts and body] You've kept the secret of your youth [You've kept your virginity] You led me to believe you're old enough [You led me to believe you were over the age of consent] To give me love [To sleep with me] And now it hurts to know the truth [And now I've got blue balls]

May I offer a few questions not yet raised here? Isn't this song a tease ? Isn't courting behavior filled with affectionate teasing & taunting ? Who is this song being sung to ? ('you lead me to believe you're old enough) So who is fooln' who? Really, is anyone being fooled ? She is being dared, isn't she ?

There's some flattery (pull-close to me) by suggesting the young partner is clever and mature enough to be so alluring, and then there is (push-away from me) 'hard-to-get'language "better run girl" as if there is some exciting danger in the relationship.

It's all very coy and classic engagement of the early 60's period. People who find these lyrics lurid or predacious may take the art of lyrical expression too literally and in so doing may miss the clever, coy, fun of it all.

Yes, it's a pretty straightforward jail-bait song, though all couched in rather family-friendly terms. I mean, when he gets to talking about her "charms" and being "old enough to give me love" he's obviously got something more in mind for her than a friendly autograph. Then too, "that come on look" she's giving him suggests that if anything, she's the aggressor! By the end he's practically yelling at her to clear out before any of his unwholesome urges can get the better of him so that, whatever may happen next, we have to admit at the very least he's given her fair warning.

This is one of those songs where the meaning is just flat out apparent in the lyrics themselves. Guy finds this girl and he's falling in love with her... but it turns out that she is young enough to be his daughter, or maybe granddaughter... and he's making the right decision by telling her to get away. Ya know... "Out of sight, out of mind."

"So you're the little neighbourhood Lolita"... To quote 'Beautiful Girls'.

This song makes me think about 'dirty math'... "When she's 18... How old will that make me?"

Sounds like jail bait to me!