This is a beautiful song about parents coming to grips that their daughter is growing up faster than they would like (trying to run before she can walk), and that it is time for them to let go. She wants to go out with her young man and experience life on her own. They're worried she's not ready and she's going to get hurt, and they would rather she wait until she is better prepared. They still see her as a child. The beauty of these lyrics is that the song doesn't present the parents as completely wrong. She isn't ready and she is going to get hurt. But what the parents need to realize is that is the point. She won't get ready for life by staying at home, and they can't always be there to protect her. She needs to get out and experience life, having her day. She'll get hurt, but she'll get over it and learn from it on the long walk of growth to adulthood.
This is a beautiful song about parents coming to grips that their daughter is growing up faster than they would like (trying to run before she can walk), and that it is time for them to let go. She wants to go out with her young man and experience life on her own. They're worried she's not ready and she's going to get hurt, and they would rather she wait until she is better prepared. They still see her as a child. The beauty of these lyrics is that the song doesn't present the parents as completely wrong. She isn't ready and she is going to get hurt. But what the parents need to realize is that is the point. She won't get ready for life by staying at home, and they can't always be there to protect her. She needs to get out and experience life, having her day. She'll get hurt, but she'll get over it and learn from it on the long walk of growth to adulthood.