When I first heard this song, I thought about teenage angst. The lines: "Just like you, I've been tryin'/To be scared" reminds me of how desperate teenagers are to feel pain as though they can get it out of the way and move on with their life. There's this idea that we're taught from an early age that growing old means becoming miserable. A lot of kids try to escape that by finding a passion. I hear this as the narrator trying to determine how he can escape the misery but getting depressed by the entire concept of age and the wasting of youth.
When I first heard this song, I thought about teenage angst. The lines: "Just like you, I've been tryin'/To be scared" reminds me of how desperate teenagers are to feel pain as though they can get it out of the way and move on with their life. There's this idea that we're taught from an early age that growing old means becoming miserable. A lot of kids try to escape that by finding a passion. I hear this as the narrator trying to determine how he can escape the misery but getting depressed by the entire concept of age and the wasting of youth.