this song is about a couple and everyone said it wouldn't work when they got together, but they stuck with it and it worked. and he's saying that even if it woudln't have worked, they need to experience it for themselves
"But remember, a parent's advice will never be as good as (take the place of) experience
Go now live life for the first time"
the line about the 1700s and locking and opening doors... i think is about sex. i may be wrong. the 1700's was a very sexually repressed time, i.e. no sex before marriage etc, and locking and opening doors... imagine a key.. and a lock.. you get the idea. just a guess
this song is about a couple and everyone said it wouldn't work when they got together, but they stuck with it and it worked. and he's saying that even if it woudln't have worked, they need to experience it for themselves "But remember, a parent's advice will never be as good as (take the place of) experience Go now live life for the first time" the line about the 1700s and locking and opening doors... i think is about sex. i may be wrong. the 1700's was a very sexually repressed time, i.e. no sex before marriage etc, and locking and opening doors... imagine a key.. and a lock.. you get the idea. just a guess