This is a leap, but this is what i think its about..
A boy who cares a lot for his best friend who's a girl, who he possibly loves, but she doesnt know. She's having a rough time with whoever she's with and asks her best friend to help her write the break up letter. Hence why he wrote this letter on a "nothing" day, the letter doesnt mean anything personal to him. He describes what he's writing in the letter, with a grin as its actually from his friend not him but he's writing it. This guy who his best friends goin out with reads it and he describes his writing as "it’s no more than a genius deserves For all his curious nerve and his passion", he's saying he added lots of emotion to the letter, but the truth is he gets this emotion because he cares for his best friend so the beautiful writing is really meant for her not for this nob, but he's too young to write all his feelings down in that one envelope.
Him and his best friend are getting old "deaf",etc.
Then its about life and death and God as he's getting old and he's worrying about what's gonna happen "someone above" and questions people have. Then he decides not to worry because he'd much rather have a good time while he's here instead of spending his life worrying.
I think his best friend gets a bit depressed "melancholy" and earlier "Like coming off the pills that you take to stay happy". Even though he loves this girl (his best friend) he's telling her to move on from that nob she used to go out with
" If you think to yourself, “What should I do now?”
Then take the baton, girl, you better run with it
There is no point in standing in the past
Because it’s over and done with ".
So his best friend goes off and has a family and lives her life, and he's just there "if she wants him", he watches over her, and misses out on life does isolated activities like sitting on his own reading books,etc basically reading about peoples' lives but not living one himself. Even though he knows she doesn't reciprocate his feelings he'll be there to fight her battles and keep an eye on her "I took a book and went into the forest
I climbed the hill, I wanted to look down on you
But all I saw was twenty miles of wilderness
So I went home"
The twenty miles is the distance thats grown between them because she has her own life, family, children,etc but he still climbs that hill because it gives him something to do. : )
This is a leap, but this is what i think its about.. A boy who cares a lot for his best friend who's a girl, who he possibly loves, but she doesnt know. She's having a rough time with whoever she's with and asks her best friend to help her write the break up letter. Hence why he wrote this letter on a "nothing" day, the letter doesnt mean anything personal to him. He describes what he's writing in the letter, with a grin as its actually from his friend not him but he's writing it. This guy who his best friends goin out with reads it and he describes his writing as "it’s no more than a genius deserves For all his curious nerve and his passion", he's saying he added lots of emotion to the letter, but the truth is he gets this emotion because he cares for his best friend so the beautiful writing is really meant for her not for this nob, but he's too young to write all his feelings down in that one envelope. Him and his best friend are getting old "deaf",etc. Then its about life and death and God as he's getting old and he's worrying about what's gonna happen "someone above" and questions people have. Then he decides not to worry because he'd much rather have a good time while he's here instead of spending his life worrying. I think his best friend gets a bit depressed "melancholy" and earlier "Like coming off the pills that you take to stay happy". Even though he loves this girl (his best friend) he's telling her to move on from that nob she used to go out with " If you think to yourself, “What should I do now?” Then take the baton, girl, you better run with it There is no point in standing in the past Because it’s over and done with ". So his best friend goes off and has a family and lives her life, and he's just there "if she wants him", he watches over her, and misses out on life does isolated activities like sitting on his own reading books,etc basically reading about peoples' lives but not living one himself. Even though he knows she doesn't reciprocate his feelings he'll be there to fight her battles and keep an eye on her "I took a book and went into the forest I climbed the hill, I wanted to look down on you But all I saw was twenty miles of wilderness So I went home" The twenty miles is the distance thats grown between them because she has her own life, family, children,etc but he still climbs that hill because it gives him something to do. : )