The Enemy are from Coventry, which is where I've lived all my life, and I can imagine them seeing the way life seems to go round here ("half the kids you grew up with were pushing prams by the time that they were just sixteen...half the kids that aren't pushing prams are pushing pills to boys and girls who are half their age") and reflecting on it and basically despairing at where all their dreams went (if love is a drug, then where is the cure for the girl who used to talk to you about her dreams" and making a comment on the way society is. Even if the things they're describing aren't a general trend thoughout like the whole of the UK there are parts of this city where this really is a way of life and they aren't exaggerating it.
On a personal note, this song always makes me think of Cov and "half the kids who (I) grew up with".
The Enemy are from Coventry, which is where I've lived all my life, and I can imagine them seeing the way life seems to go round here ("half the kids you grew up with were pushing prams by the time that they were just sixteen...half the kids that aren't pushing prams are pushing pills to boys and girls who are half their age") and reflecting on it and basically despairing at where all their dreams went (if love is a drug, then where is the cure for the girl who used to talk to you about her dreams" and making a comment on the way society is. Even if the things they're describing aren't a general trend thoughout like the whole of the UK there are parts of this city where this really is a way of life and they aren't exaggerating it. On a personal note, this song always makes me think of Cov and "half the kids who (I) grew up with".