It's about all those times when you're a kid and a teenager, (possibly living in the suburbs, or maybe just in a suburban stage of your life where nothing much happens) and you wish you were free and could live the life you dream of. And then the singer grows up and realises they were wasted hours because he's still a kid on a bus longing to be free, and he's been asking the wrong questions all along.
It's about all those times when you're a kid and a teenager, (possibly living in the suburbs, or maybe just in a suburban stage of your life where nothing much happens) and you wish you were free and could live the life you dream of. And then the singer grows up and realises they were wasted hours because he's still a kid on a bus longing to be free, and he's been asking the wrong questions all along.