I have two possible interpretations of this song. The first is innocent enough. There's a guy in this girl's hometown that she has a brief thing with, but he wants something more serious than she's ready for so she dumps him. Then, later in her life, after she's moved away and lived somewhere else for a time, she comes back home, finds old letters he wrote her, and regrets letting him go.
The second is that I think this song could be about an abortion. She has a relationship (or maybe just sex) with this guy and gets pregnant. He obviously is family-oriented (protect your family, keep them from harm, live peacefully, and he wants to grow old with her) and wants a traditional family life, but she doesn't, and she doesn't love him, so she terminates the pregnancy because she doesn't want to be bound to him and the traditional life that she'll have if she stays with him and has the kid. Then a while after that she finds old letters that he wrote her and regrets what she did. The only reason I went to the abortion idea is because of the repetition of "out, baby out, baby out." I also think that she doesn't tell him about the pregnancy or the abortion because of "before it catches up with you and you cannot withstand." She's afraid that he and everyone else will find out and she won't be able to withstand the way people will treat her after that and he won't be able to withstand the pain of knowing that she robbed him of the chance to be a father.
I don't know; the second one might be a bit of a reach, but that's how I took it. Either way, I see this as a pretty sad song about regret.
That second interpretation wouldn't really occur to me, but it kind of make sense.'Picked you out my pocket' ..now it made me think of a kangaroo pocket, where they carry their babies, and she picked it out, like it was the only thing, that attached her to the boy..even though he suggested marrying her, but he didn't mean anything to her, so now she could walk away.It could be, that they only spent a night together, cause if they were dating for some time, he would mean at least something to her. And also the line 'your family are gone'...
That second interpretation wouldn't really occur to me, but it kind of make sense.'Picked you out my pocket' ..now it made me think of a kangaroo pocket, where they carry their babies, and she picked it out, like it was the only thing, that attached her to the boy..even though he suggested marrying her, but he didn't mean anything to her, so now she could walk away.It could be, that they only spent a night together, cause if they were dating for some time, he would mean at least something to her. And also the line 'your family are gone' like there never was one but there could have been.It's really interesting, I would like to hear what would Kate said :)
I have two possible interpretations of this song. The first is innocent enough. There's a guy in this girl's hometown that she has a brief thing with, but he wants something more serious than she's ready for so she dumps him. Then, later in her life, after she's moved away and lived somewhere else for a time, she comes back home, finds old letters he wrote her, and regrets letting him go.
The second is that I think this song could be about an abortion. She has a relationship (or maybe just sex) with this guy and gets pregnant. He obviously is family-oriented (protect your family, keep them from harm, live peacefully, and he wants to grow old with her) and wants a traditional family life, but she doesn't, and she doesn't love him, so she terminates the pregnancy because she doesn't want to be bound to him and the traditional life that she'll have if she stays with him and has the kid. Then a while after that she finds old letters that he wrote her and regrets what she did. The only reason I went to the abortion idea is because of the repetition of "out, baby out, baby out." I also think that she doesn't tell him about the pregnancy or the abortion because of "before it catches up with you and you cannot withstand." She's afraid that he and everyone else will find out and she won't be able to withstand the way people will treat her after that and he won't be able to withstand the pain of knowing that she robbed him of the chance to be a father.
I don't know; the second one might be a bit of a reach, but that's how I took it. Either way, I see this as a pretty sad song about regret.
That second interpretation wouldn't really occur to me, but it kind of make sense.'Picked you out my pocket' ..now it made me think of a kangaroo pocket, where they carry their babies, and she picked it out, like it was the only thing, that attached her to the boy..even though he suggested marrying her, but he didn't mean anything to her, so now she could walk away.It could be, that they only spent a night together, cause if they were dating for some time, he would mean at least something to her. And also the line 'your family are gone'...
That second interpretation wouldn't really occur to me, but it kind of make sense.'Picked you out my pocket' ..now it made me think of a kangaroo pocket, where they carry their babies, and she picked it out, like it was the only thing, that attached her to the boy..even though he suggested marrying her, but he didn't mean anything to her, so now she could walk away.It could be, that they only spent a night together, cause if they were dating for some time, he would mean at least something to her. And also the line 'your family are gone' like there never was one but there could have been.It's really interesting, I would like to hear what would Kate said :)