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Born Yesterday Lyrics
She thinks that I was born yesterday.
She thinks that I go out with the tide and fade at the end of the day.
She thinks my hairs aren't numbered.
And when pricked I don't cry in pain.
Just cause I smile like a child born yesterday.
And she thinks that I was born in another age.
She thinks that I get up with the sun and dream my life away.
And she thinks that I'm going nowhere cause I stay at one place.
And cause I smile like a child born yesterday,
She thinks that I was born yesterday.
She thinks that I came into this world (born without a name).
And thinks, cause I'm saying nothing, that I've got nothing to say.
Just cause I smile like a child born yesterday.
She thinks that I go out with the tide and fade at the end of the day.
She thinks my hairs aren't numbered.
And when pricked I don't cry in pain.
And she thinks that I was born in another age.
She thinks that I get up with the sun and dream my life away.
And she thinks that I'm going nowhere cause I stay at one place.
She thinks that I was born yesterday.
She thinks that I came into this world (born without a name).
And thinks, cause I'm saying nothing, that I've got nothing to say.
Just cause I smile like a child born yesterday.
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I LOVE this song....
I think it's about a certain type of people. We appear innocent and naive (born yesterday) because we always try to be kind, gentle and never try to hurt people. We're anachronisms in todays Machievellian society of get everything fast and now at anybody elses expense. Maybe he's smiling cause he loves her?
I think he's deeply in love with a woman who has seen more of the world than he. I think we can all relate to that theme. Perhaps she doesn't like his naivety, and he's setting himself up for a fall. Reminds me of my first relationship.
I think that it is more that he is in love with a woman who is trapped in her own delusions. He hides behind a mask of memories from a better time and she doesn't see through it. It seems almost like she believes that he is a divine, perfect, infallible thing. He is saying in this song that he is just a flawed, fallible, human.