This song expresses the dilemma faced by a person who is in love but simultaneously terrified by the consequences that come from being an adult (i.e. marriage, etc.). Though it's a love song, it's more about the person's anxiety over his life moving from one phase to another. Though he makes it very clear that he's in love with the subject of the song, he also finds no peace in this realization ("This is nothing like I thought it would be") and continually invents more ridiculous, childish fantasies for himself and his lover to hide from the direction he eventually needs to take with his life.
This song expresses the dilemma faced by a person who is in love but simultaneously terrified by the consequences that come from being an adult (i.e. marriage, etc.). Though it's a love song, it's more about the person's anxiety over his life moving from one phase to another. Though he makes it very clear that he's in love with the subject of the song, he also finds no peace in this realization ("This is nothing like I thought it would be") and continually invents more ridiculous, childish fantasies for himself and his lover to hide from the direction he eventually needs to take with his life.