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"hurts like brand new shoes" is just an ingenious metaphor. It means that the singer (or any of us in the Western world) can't really understand the pain someone in that situation goes through, and we can only try to judge it by our standards.
"hurts like brand new shoes" is just an ingenious metaphor. It means that the singer (or any of us in the Western world) can't really understand the pain someone in that situation goes through, and we can only try to judge it by our standards.