I put this song on repeat once, probably listened to it over 20 times, and I still have trouble trying to grasp it's meaning, but I'll take a stab at it:
I think it's about the secret admirer of a girl who finds fame, and he tries to warn her about what fame will bring her, but he ends up meeting, falling in love with, and eventually marrying her.
Her handprint in the "brand new sidewalk" is a metaphor for the mark she had made on her audience or in the public, the initial milestone of her abilities that led to her fame. And, now regretting that she ever became famous, she wishes that she could erase history, but her feats have been set in stone.
"As a concerned admirer" he had once tried to tell her about the snares of fame and fortune, perhaps by sending letters (keep in mind that these are probably hypothetical characters), but she never heard or never heeded his advice.
Now, if this interpretation is true, I still can't figure out why her not listening to his warning led them to fall in love. Maybe he hadn't heeded his own advice and became famous as well, hence they're wedding by a brand new sidewalk that he himself has placed his own handprint of fame in.
I put this song on repeat once, probably listened to it over 20 times, and I still have trouble trying to grasp it's meaning, but I'll take a stab at it:
I think it's about the secret admirer of a girl who finds fame, and he tries to warn her about what fame will bring her, but he ends up meeting, falling in love with, and eventually marrying her.
Her handprint in the "brand new sidewalk" is a metaphor for the mark she had made on her audience or in the public, the initial milestone of her abilities that led to her fame. And, now regretting that she ever became famous, she wishes that she could erase history, but her feats have been set in stone.
"As a concerned admirer" he had once tried to tell her about the snares of fame and fortune, perhaps by sending letters (keep in mind that these are probably hypothetical characters), but she never heard or never heeded his advice.
Now, if this interpretation is true, I still can't figure out why her not listening to his warning led them to fall in love. Maybe he hadn't heeded his own advice and became famous as well, hence they're wedding by a brand new sidewalk that he himself has placed his own handprint of fame in.
His fame brought them together?