'I looked for you and I don't know why,
I said I was wearing black
so you could see me against the sky
Take your big leather boots
and your buckles and your chains
Put them on a downtown train'
I think she's talking about the faces they wear. He wears a mask of toughness, as indicated by the 'big leather boots and buckles and chains' and she sees through it, and sees it's pretentious.
He said 'change the channel,
I've got problems of my own
I'm so sick of hearing about drugs
And AIDS and people without homes'
I said 'well, I'd like to sympathise with that
But if you don't understand
then how can you act?'
Reminds me of my parents! Lol. Excellent verse. Sometimes people accuse me of being too liberal or whatever, but I'd rather be too much than not at all.
'I looked for you and I don't know why, I said I was wearing black so you could see me against the sky Take your big leather boots and your buckles and your chains Put them on a downtown train'
I think she's talking about the faces they wear. He wears a mask of toughness, as indicated by the 'big leather boots and buckles and chains' and she sees through it, and sees it's pretentious.
He said 'change the channel, I've got problems of my own I'm so sick of hearing about drugs And AIDS and people without homes' I said 'well, I'd like to sympathise with that But if you don't understand then how can you act?'
Reminds me of my parents! Lol. Excellent verse. Sometimes people accuse me of being too liberal or whatever, but I'd rather be too much than not at all.