I could be wrong, but when I look at the lyrics, or listen to this song, I see it being more about restricting or limiting yourself. Rather than the world or society controlling you. Is it difficult to be yourself when society wants you to conform? Yes. And is it hard when your parents have an image or an ideal that they want you to live up to? Sure. And likewise with everyone else and there Mom who will have high and probably ridiculous expectations. But it is in choice that this song, I think, is based. And how free are you, if you constantly choose to be what they all want you to be? Of course, there is also that many people enjoy taking the easy road, settling on scraping by with the bare minimum, rather than becoming something more. And again, how free can you be when you stop challenging yourself, or pushing for more. That is just my take anyhow, and not too far from a few other responses that I saw.
I could be wrong, but when I look at the lyrics, or listen to this song, I see it being more about restricting or limiting yourself. Rather than the world or society controlling you. Is it difficult to be yourself when society wants you to conform? Yes. And is it hard when your parents have an image or an ideal that they want you to live up to? Sure. And likewise with everyone else and there Mom who will have high and probably ridiculous expectations. But it is in choice that this song, I think, is based. And how free are you, if you constantly choose to be what they all want you to be? Of course, there is also that many people enjoy taking the easy road, settling on scraping by with the bare minimum, rather than becoming something more. And again, how free can you be when you stop challenging yourself, or pushing for more. That is just my take anyhow, and not too far from a few other responses that I saw.