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Seen you naked in the bath
Cigarette stains on your hands
Wilted flowers in a vase
I ask how are you
Yeah how are you?
I see the lipstick on your glass
I think you're drunk, I start to laugh
I find your note, the letters ran
It said I love you
Yeah I love you
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
Sixteen candles down the drain
I watch you passed out forever
I touch your face, you start to smile
And on your note is my reply
I wish I loved you
I wish I loved you
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
Don't ask why, don't ask why, don't ask why
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)
Sixteen candles down the drain
(The drain)

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by thirteencats

5y ago

I always thought this was about a sixteen year old girl who had either committed suicide or she was living a drug and alcohol fueled life such that she was killing her spirit/ soul.

The point of view seems to be from an older (but probably not much older) male who is probably legally too old for her. He's wants to keep his distance for legal reasons- or maybe there's just something else that is also inappropriate about their relationship, but he's attracted to her and so can't help but to play games with her a bit ('I think you're drunk/ I start to laugh'). He doesn't want things to be quite as serious and intense with this girl as they actually are.

The part about her being naked in the bath to me suggests that the girl was just so vulnerable in a moment of drunkenness that she possibly didn't care who saw her naked. More likely, though, she was in love with him ('I found your note... it said I love you') and she knew that he didn't want her because of her age or because she was destroying herself, etc. So letting him see her naked, vulnerable, and drunk like that was her way of giving him all the love she knew how to give him in the moment, even if she knew he might never return it to her. Kind of tragic.

He is disturbed by the fact that no matter what she does to try to destroy herself with the smoking ('nicotine stains on her hands' and getting drunk), he sees her pretty much as a kind of innocent angel ('wilted flowers in a vase'- at least, he'd called her 'flowers' instead of just a 'drunken slu4' or something). He sees her value (that maybe she doesn't see), and he's tormented that she's destroying herself.

The real clincher line to me in the song is 'I wish I loved you.' The thing is- it's obvious that he DOES love her, just either not in the romantic way that she wants him to or just that he's conflicted because he very much romantically loves someone younger than society feels is appropriate... he loves her but feels it's not in her best interest to tell her, because he loves her so much that he wants her to be free to grow and evolve for at least a few years without him... even if it means he loses her in the process.

Such a sad and beautiful song. If there's a real girl behind this song, I hope she's okay.

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I always thought this was about a sixteen year old girl who had either committed suicide or she was living a drug and alcohol fueled life such that she was killing her spirit/ soul.

Such a sad and beautiful song. If there's a real girl behind this song, I hope she's okay.

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