May I offer a few questions not yet raised here?
Isn't this song a tease ? Isn't courting behavior filled with affectionate teasing & taunting ?
Who is this song being sung to ? ('you lead me to believe you're old enough) So who is fooln' who?
Really, is anyone being fooled ? She is being dared, isn't she ?
There's some flattery (pull-close to me) by suggesting the young partner is clever and mature enough to be so alluring, and then there is (push-away from me) 'hard-to-get'language "better run girl" as if there is some exciting danger in the relationship.
It's all very coy and classic engagement of the early 60's period.
People who find these lyrics lurid or predacious may take the art of lyrical expression too literally and in so doing may miss the clever, coy, fun of it all.
May I offer a few questions not yet raised here? Isn't this song a tease ? Isn't courting behavior filled with affectionate teasing & taunting ? Who is this song being sung to ? ('you lead me to believe you're old enough) So who is fooln' who? Really, is anyone being fooled ? She is being dared, isn't she ?
There's some flattery (pull-close to me) by suggesting the young partner is clever and mature enough to be so alluring, and then there is (push-away from me) 'hard-to-get'language "better run girl" as if there is some exciting danger in the relationship.
It's all very coy and classic engagement of the early 60's period. People who find these lyrics lurid or predacious may take the art of lyrical expression too literally and in so doing may miss the clever, coy, fun of it all.