This one goes out to the comment from chiquita08...
Yes the song does have a kind of sappy context, but I don't feel that the sadness he feels is from "unreqited love". He is sad because they are getting older if anything. What he still is holding on to is after ten years it still feels like it did when they were kids. The piano analogy shows how they can both be themselves around eachother and not worry about boogie woogie(which doesn't necasarilly mean "silly songs", just her own personal style) or love songs that may be laughed at if played in front of others. They didn't care. Playing house was just stating that it still felt like they were kids and proposes that they had fun together. Life wasn't stressful together. Now we move on to the treehouse...the significance of the tree was that it was there spot and again made them go back to their youth. Just like kids, they could go somewhere 2 blocks away and suddenly they're on the moon. Seeing it burn down just hurts him because he sees not only his memories being destroyed, but his youthful life. Finally, over the course of the last chorus he switches up the phrase (and read carefully...) "We can't rewind, we're locked in time"-let me pause and say that here is a prime example of missing the past, not the girl and here's why if you notice the last part of the short phrase..."BUT YOU'RE STILL MINE!!!! They are still together!!! He finishes up with "Do you remember" because that is all he has left, memories. Now, sure that sounds like there may be a chance they are not together, but if you listen to the song, he ends the song as if he were starting it up with the D showing that nothing is over and that they are just getting started with the rest of their lives together. Besides of course they're together because just as Jack put it at the beginning of "In Between Dreams", they are "Better Together".
This one goes out to the comment from chiquita08... Yes the song does have a kind of sappy context, but I don't feel that the sadness he feels is from "unreqited love". He is sad because they are getting older if anything. What he still is holding on to is after ten years it still feels like it did when they were kids. The piano analogy shows how they can both be themselves around eachother and not worry about boogie woogie(which doesn't necasarilly mean "silly songs", just her own personal style) or love songs that may be laughed at if played in front of others. They didn't care. Playing house was just stating that it still felt like they were kids and proposes that they had fun together. Life wasn't stressful together. Now we move on to the treehouse...the significance of the tree was that it was there spot and again made them go back to their youth. Just like kids, they could go somewhere 2 blocks away and suddenly they're on the moon. Seeing it burn down just hurts him because he sees not only his memories being destroyed, but his youthful life. Finally, over the course of the last chorus he switches up the phrase (and read carefully...) "We can't rewind, we're locked in time"-let me pause and say that here is a prime example of missing the past, not the girl and here's why if you notice the last part of the short phrase..."BUT YOU'RE STILL MINE!!!! They are still together!!! He finishes up with "Do you remember" because that is all he has left, memories. Now, sure that sounds like there may be a chance they are not together, but if you listen to the song, he ends the song as if he were starting it up with the D showing that nothing is over and that they are just getting started with the rest of their lives together. Besides of course they're together because just as Jack put it at the beginning of "In Between Dreams", they are "Better Together".