Walls Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Nick the Bastard 

Cover art for Walls lyrics by Tom Petty

I like how there's a lot "this is this, but that is that" in this song. It shows how nothing is 100 percent. You can have you ideas and principles and rules, but there's always shades of grey and exceptions. You never really know what's going on in life. You see nice things like "golden sundowns," but then they "fade away" and you have to deal with that. Then you have the walls which are supposed to be inpentatrable and permanant, but they fall down, too. So it's kind of a good thing that nothing lasts, because even the bad things don't.

I guess I read a lot into it, but I think that makes sense if you want to take it that way.