My interpretation is different from Dollymay's. This narrator is looking around at young people living the promiscuous lifestyle he once had... and realizing he's changed, and doesn't want the same things anymore. It's a bittersweet celebration, but ultimately triumphant.
I like the way his tone changes when he sings "suckers!", illustrating this point. He starts out saying - look at you, look at you - as if impressed, but then he turns around and laughs, Suckers! Does your mother know what you're doing? They're just kids, they don't have what he has.
Sometimes he still misses the games he used to play, and wants a whiff of the old life - 'come here and let me smell you', he says, to this youth about to play his old game. They're just beginning their sexual age, still seeking the attention of the world, about to sleep with seas of men for attention and experience. But what is all that worth? Being the hottest person in the room at a party, breaking hearts, these are people you haven't invested much of your life in, shallow relationships that will fall easily. That's what "making the thin cards fall" means. It's a house of cards, this youthful world of fleeting romances, they are thin and easy to collapse.
The video to me has a different tone- the narrator doesn't mean all these things about being happier in their settled life and is only trying to convince themselves. A librarian, walking around reprimanding wild youths - until desire breaks through her denial.
My interpretation is different from Dollymay's. This narrator is looking around at young people living the promiscuous lifestyle he once had... and realizing he's changed, and doesn't want the same things anymore. It's a bittersweet celebration, but ultimately triumphant.
I like the way his tone changes when he sings "suckers!", illustrating this point. He starts out saying - look at you, look at you - as if impressed, but then he turns around and laughs, Suckers! Does your mother know what you're doing? They're just kids, they don't have what he has.
Sometimes he still misses the games he used to play, and wants a whiff of the old life - 'come here and let me smell you', he says, to this youth about to play his old game. They're just beginning their sexual age, still seeking the attention of the world, about to sleep with seas of men for attention and experience. But what is all that worth? Being the hottest person in the room at a party, breaking hearts, these are people you haven't invested much of your life in, shallow relationships that will fall easily. That's what "making the thin cards fall" means. It's a house of cards, this youthful world of fleeting romances, they are thin and easy to collapse.
The video to me has a different tone- the narrator doesn't mean all these things about being happier in their settled life and is only trying to convince themselves. A librarian, walking around reprimanding wild youths - until desire breaks through her denial.