If you go to their official site, they have the meaning of this song on there.
But if you can't be bothered lol...
It is about that Fred Astaire dude, how he was a perfectionist and pushed himself to the best blah blah blah, and the song is a conversation between mother and son. When he wrote this song, he kept changing from mother to son so that both views clearly come across. Basically his mum thinks he's wasting his youth because he's not following in Freds footsteps, as far as she can see it, he's not making anything of himself. He however, thinks that he isn't wasting his youth at all, he's just taking a different approach to things. That's what all parents/teachers need to understand - just because we aren't perfectionists, doesn't mean that we're wasting our youths. We're doing what we want to, and somehow I don't think that's a waste =)
If you go to their official site, they have the meaning of this song on there. But if you can't be bothered lol... It is about that Fred Astaire dude, how he was a perfectionist and pushed himself to the best blah blah blah, and the song is a conversation between mother and son. When he wrote this song, he kept changing from mother to son so that both views clearly come across. Basically his mum thinks he's wasting his youth because he's not following in Freds footsteps, as far as she can see it, he's not making anything of himself. He however, thinks that he isn't wasting his youth at all, he's just taking a different approach to things. That's what all parents/teachers need to understand - just because we aren't perfectionists, doesn't mean that we're wasting our youths. We're doing what we want to, and somehow I don't think that's a waste =)