This song has got one of my favorite lines of all time in it: "Sometimes it's hard to tell the wishing from the well / where you threw the penny and where it fell."
I suppose the song for me hinges on those lines. It's about making choices, about how who you want to be or what you want to do ends up not turning out how you thought it would. Sometimes the consequences of your choices hurt you. The chorus says you gotta be tough. You make mistakes, you get cut, you bleed. You can't let it get to you. You're only sad and lonely, and no one is impressed. This song is about hanging tough even through your mistakes and bad choices, patching yourself up, and still trying.
This song has got one of my favorite lines of all time in it: "Sometimes it's hard to tell the wishing from the well / where you threw the penny and where it fell."
I suppose the song for me hinges on those lines. It's about making choices, about how who you want to be or what you want to do ends up not turning out how you thought it would. Sometimes the consequences of your choices hurt you. The chorus says you gotta be tough. You make mistakes, you get cut, you bleed. You can't let it get to you. You're only sad and lonely, and no one is impressed. This song is about hanging tough even through your mistakes and bad choices, patching yourself up, and still trying.