Sweet Jane

Here's my personal interpretation of this song. First, is a look into the past, describing the youthful and more rebellious days of Jack and Jane. Then, in the present, the narrator (Lou) is in his band, while Jack and Jane work classic 9 to 5 jobs,listening to traditional music and generally being responsible adults. After the chorus, the lyrics broaden from meditation Jack and Jane to a general thoughts about life choices and people. Here, each line should be disected.

Some people they like to go out dancin and other people they have to work. These lines are again comparing two competing life styles, the one type being like Jack and Jane's and the other being like Lou's.

and there's even some evil mothers Well there gonna tell you that everthing is just dirt These lines perhaps show how others, like parents, will say that every choice is wrong.

you know that women never really faint This gives evidence that women only pretend to be weak but are actually cognizant of their actions - something not being what it seems.

and that villians always blink their eyes Villians are not infalliable, but always blink,ie a second where they cannot see, are still human,

that children are the only ones who blush Children here are the only ones who show their emotions, saying that in adult looks are decieving, making it difficult to discern what they are truly feeling and thinking

and that life is just to die Clearly, Lou doesn't believe that there is not a goal in life, no ergon

But anyone who ever had a heart they wouldn't turn around and break it and anyone who ever played a part They wouldn't turn around and hate it These last lines are a continuation of the general idea behind this song. The songs seems to be a meditation on life choices that the writer has made, the life of a singer in a band versus the idealized white picket fence life. The lyrics and tone seems to mock Jack and Jane, making them appear boring and stuffy. Yet despite the cynical tone, the writer doesn't actually seem so sure that the life of Jack and Jill is really bad. Others people's opinions, such as the mother, isn't reliable,as they will dislike everything. The next three lines shows how difficult it is to judge other lifestyles, considering how impossible it is to read manipulative adults. The writer than asserts that life has no end goal, thus it is quite open towards what life is the best - here implied that one might as well live it up. Immediately after leaning towards his lifestyle, he is pulled back into uncertainty after thinking about why Jack and Jane choose their boring life- they wouldn't just decide to live a horribly bland life and couldn't just hate their rebellious glory days: there must be something good that made them live the way they live now. In the end, no conclusion has been sufficiently reached, making this song one huge question:whether he or Jack and Jane made better choices and life a more fulfilling life.