To me, this song is a guy recounting the realisation that parents aren't just parents to the kind of girl he was warned about by his mother. It's about in general the boys relationship with his parents and the changes to it as he overcomes each and every realisation about their past and present.
I wasn't too sure about the "Surrender" part, and not knowing much about American History, if it was related to the Vietnamese/Korean war, I wouldn never have discovered the meaning on my own. I always thought it meant something along the lines of "Surrender to what you want (i.e the girl his mother warned him about), but don't give yourself totally because there's always the thought that you'll get hurt by 'girls like you'." Does this make sens eot anybody else?
To me, this song is a guy recounting the realisation that parents aren't just parents to the kind of girl he was warned about by his mother. It's about in general the boys relationship with his parents and the changes to it as he overcomes each and every realisation about their past and present.
I wasn't too sure about the "Surrender" part, and not knowing much about American History, if it was related to the Vietnamese/Korean war, I wouldn never have discovered the meaning on my own. I always thought it meant something along the lines of "Surrender to what you want (i.e the girl his mother warned him about), but don't give yourself totally because there's always the thought that you'll get hurt by 'girls like you'." Does this make sens eot anybody else?