This song reminds me of that Andrew Marvell poem "to his coy mistress" only it's kind of in reverse. Instead of talking jack and diane into having sex and growing up, he is saying. "hold out on having sex, be a kid. you don't have to grow up and start a family in the city right now at 16 cause you have the whole rest of your life to do that boring adult stuff. instead, justs it back and do kid stuff while you can, cause when you're older, these younger times are the ones you're going to be wishing you still had"
it's kind of a carpe diem song about living in the day rather than trying to live your entire life all at once.
This song reminds me of that Andrew Marvell poem "to his coy mistress" only it's kind of in reverse. Instead of talking jack and diane into having sex and growing up, he is saying. "hold out on having sex, be a kid. you don't have to grow up and start a family in the city right now at 16 cause you have the whole rest of your life to do that boring adult stuff. instead, justs it back and do kid stuff while you can, cause when you're older, these younger times are the ones you're going to be wishing you still had" it's kind of a carpe diem song about living in the day rather than trying to live your entire life all at once.