I interpret this song to mean yearning to just go back and relive the happy, innocent and unjaded times in our past. Not necessarily with regret for past mistakes or decisions, but simply because we enjoyed those moments.
You are having problems at work, the bills are overdue, you are drifting apart from your spouse... whatever the problem is, big or small; you just want to leave them, you just want to go back to a time when you didn't have these current problems. But all you can do is wish to go back because you know you can't go back.
I interpret this song to mean yearning to just go back and relive the happy, innocent and unjaded times in our past. Not necessarily with regret for past mistakes or decisions, but simply because we enjoyed those moments.
You are having problems at work, the bills are overdue, you are drifting apart from your spouse... whatever the problem is, big or small; you just want to leave them, you just want to go back to a time when you didn't have these current problems. But all you can do is wish to go back because you know you can't go back.