I think this song is about a mother and her kids and a funeral.
"My mother said that i would get in trouble" the kids are at a funeral and acting out
"Father wont come home because he is seeing double" is either because he has turned to drinking to numb this death, or because he has died from drinking but the mother doesn't have the heart to tell these kids
"Out in the endless green, your eyes are so misleading" the endless green is the cemetery, and her eyes are misleading because she's telling the kids that its okay, that its nothing to be sad about but she is obviously crying which is "misleading" to the kids. Why would she be crying when she's telling us everything is okay.
"Thats when the car pulls up..." The hearse that is carrying the body
"And in a while, you start a smile
The earth is wild, we've got no time" is her starting to celebrate his life, to be happy that she could be a part of his life and that he was a part of hers. She realizes that the earth is wild, things are always happening and we have no control over it, so we have to do as much as we can in the short time that we have here. We need to live it as much as possible.
"Wild in our ways, what we are making" is i think how all of us youth want to live, by making our lives wild in our own way, to what we deem to be the fullest.
"heartless to say go on pretending"
Is how it would be heartless for the mother to tell the kids go on pretending, and not warn the kids about all of the bad that is in this world and how to deal with it
"One chance to fall behind the lines that will not let you" is about how the mother has the chance to fall back to being wild in her own way, to go on pretending and live her life happily. To go past these lines which i think are all the bad experiences that are reminding her the world is harsh and wild and that are keeping her from living the way she used to, the way these kids live
"Can i believe in how the past is what will catch you" is reinforcing how that its the past, its her experiences that are catching her and stopping her from falling back into living life the way she wants to live, to go on pretending
And then the song repeats, but it changes from "heartless to say go on pretending" to "heartless to say, we go on pretending" "wild in our ways, go on pretending" and i think this shows the progress of life and the mindsets... At first its the parents telling us to stop pretending, and then its us telling ourselves that we cant go on pretending, but as we get older, we realize what this mother realized, that we need to go back to being a kid, to being wild in our own ways and go on pretending
All in all, i think this song is about finding a balance between adults and youth. Adults always focus on the bad in this world and the harsh realities of life, but the kids only focus on the good in the world and pretending that everything's perfect. Its about how the kids need to learn from the parents, just as much as the parents need to learn from the kids. To worry less and live free, and for the kids to be more aware and learn how to take on the shitty aspects of this earth. Only then, when you can balance the two, you're life will be what you want it to be.
I think this song is about a mother and her kids and a funeral. "My mother said that i would get in trouble" the kids are at a funeral and acting out
"Father wont come home because he is seeing double" is either because he has turned to drinking to numb this death, or because he has died from drinking but the mother doesn't have the heart to tell these kids
"Out in the endless green, your eyes are so misleading" the endless green is the cemetery, and her eyes are misleading because she's telling the kids that its okay, that its nothing to be sad about but she is obviously crying which is "misleading" to the kids. Why would she be crying when she's telling us everything is okay.
"Thats when the car pulls up..." The hearse that is carrying the body
"And in a while, you start a smile The earth is wild, we've got no time" is her starting to celebrate his life, to be happy that she could be a part of his life and that he was a part of hers. She realizes that the earth is wild, things are always happening and we have no control over it, so we have to do as much as we can in the short time that we have here. We need to live it as much as possible.
"Wild in our ways, what we are making" is i think how all of us youth want to live, by making our lives wild in our own way, to what we deem to be the fullest.
"heartless to say go on pretending" Is how it would be heartless for the mother to tell the kids go on pretending, and not warn the kids about all of the bad that is in this world and how to deal with it
"One chance to fall behind the lines that will not let you" is about how the mother has the chance to fall back to being wild in her own way, to go on pretending and live her life happily. To go past these lines which i think are all the bad experiences that are reminding her the world is harsh and wild and that are keeping her from living the way she used to, the way these kids live
"Can i believe in how the past is what will catch you" is reinforcing how that its the past, its her experiences that are catching her and stopping her from falling back into living life the way she wants to live, to go on pretending
And then the song repeats, but it changes from "heartless to say go on pretending" to "heartless to say, we go on pretending" "wild in our ways, go on pretending" and i think this shows the progress of life and the mindsets... At first its the parents telling us to stop pretending, and then its us telling ourselves that we cant go on pretending, but as we get older, we realize what this mother realized, that we need to go back to being a kid, to being wild in our own ways and go on pretending
All in all, i think this song is about finding a balance between adults and youth. Adults always focus on the bad in this world and the harsh realities of life, but the kids only focus on the good in the world and pretending that everything's perfect. Its about how the kids need to learn from the parents, just as much as the parents need to learn from the kids. To worry less and live free, and for the kids to be more aware and learn how to take on the shitty aspects of this earth. Only then, when you can balance the two, you're life will be what you want it to be.
Go on pretending