I love the line 'You think you know me well' in this song. It seems to contain the frustration of the speaker, who desperately wants the girl to know him well, and is angry (perhaps even insulted) that she thinks she has achieved this already, when he had so much more to offer.
He feels compelled to blame her for the misunderstanding (with the use of 'anyone can tell' and the repetition of 'YOU don't know me'), but evidently understands that actually he is mostly at fault for being so passive ('Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by').
For me, the song is about the naivety of a 'first love,' which affects you intensely and yet you don't have the experience to know how to deal with it.
I love the line 'You think you know me well' in this song. It seems to contain the frustration of the speaker, who desperately wants the girl to know him well, and is angry (perhaps even insulted) that she thinks she has achieved this already, when he had so much more to offer.
He feels compelled to blame her for the misunderstanding (with the use of 'anyone can tell' and the repetition of 'YOU don't know me'), but evidently understands that actually he is mostly at fault for being so passive ('Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by').
For me, the song is about the naivety of a 'first love,' which affects you intensely and yet you don't have the experience to know how to deal with it.