Not necessarily about growing up, I think. I see it as a goodbye song for the end of an era. In Jason's case, it might be about the "seasons in the sun" spent in Modesto, just living it up and hanging with everybody. But now everyone's gone, and there are no specific plans to do anything else.
As for me, I love this song because I see it as the end of my own "extended childhood"; those years after finishing college, spent hanging with friends, drinking, smoking, screwing.. one of my seasons in the sun. But suddenly everyone's gone, off to work or marriage or whatever, and the feeling of "now what" starts to creep in. And all I can see is crowds of fools who fight with phones, obsessed with business and making money, who hate the sun and the idea of just living without a care.
Jason has a way of putting into words the malady of our times. Of my times, at least.
Not necessarily about growing up, I think. I see it as a goodbye song for the end of an era. In Jason's case, it might be about the "seasons in the sun" spent in Modesto, just living it up and hanging with everybody. But now everyone's gone, and there are no specific plans to do anything else.
As for me, I love this song because I see it as the end of my own "extended childhood"; those years after finishing college, spent hanging with friends, drinking, smoking, screwing.. one of my seasons in the sun. But suddenly everyone's gone, off to work or marriage or whatever, and the feeling of "now what" starts to creep in. And all I can see is crowds of fools who fight with phones, obsessed with business and making money, who hate the sun and the idea of just living without a care.
Jason has a way of putting into words the malady of our times. Of my times, at least.