I feel like this is a coming-of-age song, and she's singing about how after all the work she did to stay on the "good" side of her teen years, she's now entering adulthood and it's WAY harder than she thought. None of the things are the way she thought they'd be, and people are even more mean and less patient than they were when she was younger. Now at 17, she's started to get treated more like an adult, even if she isn't quite an adult yet, and finding out that, yeah, it really IS brutal out here.
I feel like this is a coming-of-age song, and she's singing about how after all the work she did to stay on the "good" side of her teen years, she's now entering adulthood and it's WAY harder than she thought. None of the things are the way she thought they'd be, and people are even more mean and less patient than they were when she was younger. Now at 17, she's started to get treated more like an adult, even if she isn't quite an adult yet, and finding out that, yeah, it really IS brutal out here.