The title more or less says it all: "Youth is wasted on the young", which I think means that while we're all young, we take life for granted. We waste too much time on things that don't matter, whether we realize that at the time or not because we think we have forever. We don't really know enough to live life to its fullest, and once we've realized this, we're old or in a situation where we can't do everything we want to. As we grow up, we all lose pieces of ourselves, we all fall apart. We give pieces to every person, place, and thing that we have ever loved, and sometimes those pieces are taken from us without our permission from people, places, or things we hate. And while it feels lonely and sucks, we're all together in the fact that we are broken and alone. In this song, he sounds like he's making peace with the fact that the past is the past and there's nothing we can do about it. We just have to cut our losses and continue on.
The title more or less says it all: "Youth is wasted on the young", which I think means that while we're all young, we take life for granted. We waste too much time on things that don't matter, whether we realize that at the time or not because we think we have forever. We don't really know enough to live life to its fullest, and once we've realized this, we're old or in a situation where we can't do everything we want to. As we grow up, we all lose pieces of ourselves, we all fall apart. We give pieces to every person, place, and thing that we have ever loved, and sometimes those pieces are taken from us without our permission from people, places, or things we hate. And while it feels lonely and sucks, we're all together in the fact that we are broken and alone. In this song, he sounds like he's making peace with the fact that the past is the past and there's nothing we can do about it. We just have to cut our losses and continue on.