I like the way this song has it both ways. It is a sad song about nostalgia and the way we see times and other people change combined with a classic "death ballad". But it also contains an up-beat shift in attitude: "Your'e NEVER too old to rock and roll" and you find out in the next song on the album, Pied Piper, that it wasn't a death ballad either.
I particularly like these lines that express the protagonist's point of view: "all of his mates are doing time:
married with three kids".
I like the way this song has it both ways. It is a sad song about nostalgia and the way we see times and other people change combined with a classic "death ballad". But it also contains an up-beat shift in attitude: "Your'e NEVER too old to rock and roll" and you find out in the next song on the album, Pied Piper, that it wasn't a death ballad either.
I particularly like these lines that express the protagonist's point of view: "all of his mates are doing time: married with three kids".