Great Supertramp song. It's a plea to someone who has been emotionally scarred to let love in. On one hand, you have someone who has been hurt and is "looking for someone to give an answer," yet cannot trust anyone to get close enough to give them that "answer". On the other hand, the song is written from a mostly idealistic point of view, with the statement "I as a boy believed the saying the cure for pain was love," though the boy indicates that he can also relate to her hiding in a shell. So they've both been hurt in the past, he perhaps to a lesser extent than she. He wants to move on by getting close to someone else, while she feels too vulnerable to let another person hurt her again.
Great Supertramp song. It's a plea to someone who has been emotionally scarred to let love in. On one hand, you have someone who has been hurt and is "looking for someone to give an answer," yet cannot trust anyone to get close enough to give them that "answer". On the other hand, the song is written from a mostly idealistic point of view, with the statement "I as a boy believed the saying the cure for pain was love," though the boy indicates that he can also relate to her hiding in a shell. So they've both been hurt in the past, he perhaps to a lesser extent than she. He wants to move on by getting close to someone else, while she feels too vulnerable to let another person hurt her again.