This song is for those two people who keep crawling back to each other only to break each other's hearts again. "Everything old is new again" means the nostalgia keeps blinding them to how ill-suited they are -- to each other, maybe even to relationships as a whole.
"Everything under the sun" is a clever play on scripture -- Ecclesiastes 1:9 says "That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun." Their "fresh starts" will always be doomed to the same failures as before, because for all their enthusiasm neither of them can ever make the necessary changes. They're caught in a codependent feedback loop, a two-way addiction.
This song is for those two people who keep crawling back to each other only to break each other's hearts again. "Everything old is new again" means the nostalgia keeps blinding them to how ill-suited they are -- to each other, maybe even to relationships as a whole.
"Everything under the sun" is a clever play on scripture -- Ecclesiastes 1:9 says "That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun." Their "fresh starts" will always be doomed to the same failures as before, because for all their enthusiasm neither of them can ever make the necessary changes. They're caught in a codependent feedback loop, a two-way addiction.