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One Way Meanings & Lyrics Discussion by Negrul1 | SongMeanings
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I think this song is about choosing a life outside of society's norms -- while all his friends are growing up and wasting their lives in boring jobs ("all my friends and all their jobs And all the bloody waste"), he's having an emotional life (learning "to love and laugh") as an anarchist punk. I think the message is that there's more to life than society's prescribed path of school>marriage>work>death, but you have to find it yourself.
I think this song is about choosing a life outside of society's norms -- while all his friends are growing up and wasting their lives in boring jobs ("all my friends and all their jobs And all the bloody waste"), he's having an emotional life (learning "to love and laugh") as an anarchist punk. I think the message is that there's more to life than society's prescribed path of school>marriage>work>death, but you have to find it yourself.