To me, this song is a celebration of the beauty of a intelligent, intuitive girl who is unpopular and not necessarily attractive on the outside, and is also very insecure; the narrator of the song sees her beauty, and sees that her intelligence and strength of feeling, which ordinarily just makes her "weird" to her friends, means that she has the potential to get away from the banality of her junior life-saver job and to live life to the fullest; when i listen to this song, i think of the joy that a left-out kid feels when they finally realize that everyone else was wrong, and that being smart and open to all of life's potential is really the "cool" way to be.
To me, this song is a celebration of the beauty of a intelligent, intuitive girl who is unpopular and not necessarily attractive on the outside, and is also very insecure; the narrator of the song sees her beauty, and sees that her intelligence and strength of feeling, which ordinarily just makes her "weird" to her friends, means that she has the potential to get away from the banality of her junior life-saver job and to live life to the fullest; when i listen to this song, i think of the joy that a left-out kid feels when they finally realize that everyone else was wrong, and that being smart and open to all of life's potential is really the "cool" way to be.