Everybody has their own interpretation of what this song is, including myself. I was quite young when I first heard this song. Back then, the Goo Goo Dolls were a fairly unknown band and I’d saved a hundred Hong Kong dollars over the month to get it after reading positive reviews in guitar magazines and such. Truth be told, being an athlete (jock more like), immersed in schoolwork, and generally just not in with the ‘cool’ kids, I hadn’t a huge group of friends back then. Oddly enough, it’s very much like it is right now. My refuge in turn was a wonderful world of music, film, punk rock, skateboarding, reading and just all round dorkiness, in the best sense of the word of course.
This song meant a lot to me then and even now, simply because of way it allows you to interpret and reinterpret it’s meaning to you, leaving it timeless mattering whatever you want it to, and whenever you want it to.
10 years ago, it meant to chime in the notion and metaphor that the world is and was an extremely harsh place. Us, children and society in general had to grow up. A forced maturity if you will. And in essence though every memory, thought or ideal that you kept close to your heart is lost in the past, rendered gone or unconscious for a while, that you, whoever you are, can seek refuge with me, whenever you want, with whatever thoughts you may have. And I, will never betray you.
And with that, we’ll wave our fists against the wind and dust with youthful gusto of days gone by, fearlessly and shamelessly, for I, again, will never betray you.
Still today, whatever harshness still lingers on this earth, with whatever hair I’ve lost, and whatever years I’ve gained, that notion hasn’t changed one bit.
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