October

I found these lyrics at metrolyrics.com, and they fit what I've been hearing a lot better:

So you show me round your town ... I love the sexy way you made all the friends you depend on

I know it might seem odd Kid, you're not the only one... ...

(... and all those searching eyes, do they scald your tender pride?)

...

But what you don't know Is you're too young and eager to love This evening I see you're about to get into The ditch that your old man dug ...

See the stars align And leave you behind You want it so, and I I come by light of an autumn moon Sit still, you know enough...

...

So torn and worn and wise One day and your time is up No doubt you think that you braided your own hair So you all grown up

Should you want to cross the line, Which way did you want to find? Pretend that luck could help you find your way But you got me wrong...

I feel like it's about the nature of teenage girls. The singer is describing a teenage girl who charms everyone into being her friends so she can depend on them, who thinks she's "so torn and worn and wise," who believes she's got the world figured out, but whose "tender pride" is easily scalded because she's not really as grown up as she thinks she is. She'd like to think she can go anywhere and do anything, but as he points out to her in the last verse, "Should you want to cross the line, / Which way did you want to find?" She doesn't really know what she's doing after all, and luck won't get her as far as she thinks it will.

I'm not entirely sure about the meaning of "This evening I see you're about to get into / The ditch that your old man dug," but it fits what I'm hearing better than anything I've read so far. Perhaps it has to do with the girl breaking her father's rules about going out at night?