In this song, I think the speaker is looking back on his life and taking the lessons from when he was young and analyzing his mistakes and giving advice on how not to make the same mistakes he made. I think three of the major things he is saying to do are persevere through the struggles, don't get in a hurry to grow up, and try and be alright with not being perfect.
In life the speaker says you find "winding roads" and that in order to get past those roads you need to see the "straight path" and to do that I think he means to go remember what he said in the first stanza, instead of finding the winding paths up the mountains just go straight for it and even if you fall down keep going break through your limits and see yourself at the top.
The second part that I feel he is advising is that young kids get in a hurry to grow up and be someone else instead of just enjoying their time, for instance when he says "Waiting is wasting, for people like me," when he says this he is referring to his twelve year old self and sneaking out of class and getting reprimanded by a teacher but in his young mind he thought that is was a waste of his time to wait and grow up so he skipped school a lot. He follows this by the first chorus and I think this is the perfect time for it because it brings home his point of not growing up so fast when he says "don't try to look so wise" this is perfect since his twelve year old self thought that he was smart and didn't need to learn.
The third major thing he is say is that in life you will never be perfect so don't try so hard to be the perfect person. At the end of the song the meaning in the chorus changes and it goes from not trying to grow up so fast to being a reminder not to try and be perfect otherwise "you will hate yourself in the end." "Don't try and look so wise, don't cry cause its alright, don't dry with fakes or fears, cause you will hate yourself in the end," when saying this he has now said to me at least that if you try and be too perfect and look too good and care too much about the little things, you end up being fake and always afraid of everything and you will look back one day and hate the person you've become much like he has.
I think it is important that he mainly focuses on what not to do, this shows that he is still learning the things to do and that he is just giving advice on what not to do not that he know what to do but the speaker believes life is better when you don't do these things, even if you don't know what to do instead. Don't ever give up or give into the negatives in life, don't try and grow up so fast there is so much life to enjoy, and don't try and be the perfect person and worry about little insignificant things, or you will hate yourself when you look back on your life.
In this song, I think the speaker is looking back on his life and taking the lessons from when he was young and analyzing his mistakes and giving advice on how not to make the same mistakes he made. I think three of the major things he is saying to do are persevere through the struggles, don't get in a hurry to grow up, and try and be alright with not being perfect.
In life the speaker says you find "winding roads" and that in order to get past those roads you need to see the "straight path" and to do that I think he means to go remember what he said in the first stanza, instead of finding the winding paths up the mountains just go straight for it and even if you fall down keep going break through your limits and see yourself at the top.
The second part that I feel he is advising is that young kids get in a hurry to grow up and be someone else instead of just enjoying their time, for instance when he says "Waiting is wasting, for people like me," when he says this he is referring to his twelve year old self and sneaking out of class and getting reprimanded by a teacher but in his young mind he thought that is was a waste of his time to wait and grow up so he skipped school a lot. He follows this by the first chorus and I think this is the perfect time for it because it brings home his point of not growing up so fast when he says "don't try to look so wise" this is perfect since his twelve year old self thought that he was smart and didn't need to learn.
The third major thing he is say is that in life you will never be perfect so don't try so hard to be the perfect person. At the end of the song the meaning in the chorus changes and it goes from not trying to grow up so fast to being a reminder not to try and be perfect otherwise "you will hate yourself in the end." "Don't try and look so wise, don't cry cause its alright, don't dry with fakes or fears, cause you will hate yourself in the end," when saying this he has now said to me at least that if you try and be too perfect and look too good and care too much about the little things, you end up being fake and always afraid of everything and you will look back one day and hate the person you've become much like he has.
I think it is important that he mainly focuses on what not to do, this shows that he is still learning the things to do and that he is just giving advice on what not to do not that he know what to do but the speaker believes life is better when you don't do these things, even if you don't know what to do instead. Don't ever give up or give into the negatives in life, don't try and grow up so fast there is so much life to enjoy, and don't try and be the perfect person and worry about little insignificant things, or you will hate yourself when you look back on your life.
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@Wally123 I love this interpretation of the song.
@Wally123 I love this interpretation of the song.