The first verse of this song owes so much to Nothing Gold Can Stay that it would almost be fair to call it a pop song re-imagining of Robert Frost's poem.
It centers on the metaphor and the theme of the poem. But rather than observing the inevitable end of childhood and adolescence from a distance, it's narrated from someone standing in that very moment. Looking back at years that just recently rushed past with melancholy and nostalgia, while feeling anxiety for what it to come.
The line "What if to love and be loved's not enough?" still gets me from time to time. It's a simple line, but in its context it perfectly sums up how scary that point in life can feel.
It's a derivative work to be sure, but as such I think it is absolutely brilliant.
The first verse of this song owes so much to Nothing Gold Can Stay that it would almost be fair to call it a pop song re-imagining of Robert Frost's poem.
It centers on the metaphor and the theme of the poem. But rather than observing the inevitable end of childhood and adolescence from a distance, it's narrated from someone standing in that very moment. Looking back at years that just recently rushed past with melancholy and nostalgia, while feeling anxiety for what it to come.
The line "What if to love and be loved's not enough?" still gets me from time to time. It's a simple line, but in its context it perfectly sums up how scary that point in life can feel.
It's a derivative work to be sure, but as such I think it is absolutely brilliant.