This is a great song about painting outside the lines, figuratively speaking. The metaphor is very simple through the whole thing; all explained in the 7th and 8th verses. Everyone is obsessed with being something different, whether it be cool or rich or accepted or normal or whatever, we're all trying to stay in those invisible lines, but-- no, don't do that, he says. Leave it like it is -- you are who you are, and if you go outside the lines, then you end up with something unique and different, and It's fine.
This is a great song about painting outside the lines, figuratively speaking. The metaphor is very simple through the whole thing; all explained in the 7th and 8th verses. Everyone is obsessed with being something different, whether it be cool or rich or accepted or normal or whatever, we're all trying to stay in those invisible lines, but-- no, don't do that, he says. Leave it like it is -- you are who you are, and if you go outside the lines, then you end up with something unique and different, and It's fine.
Love that song.