Enjoy the ups and downs of teenage life while you can. Some day we'll be old and gray and we'll look back on the 5 years or so from when you come into your own and when you get real world responsibilities, and we'll wish we'd have done these things. Smoke a joint, sneak out, stay out with your friends until 4 AM, tell the person you love that you love them, see the world, tell people you hate to fuck off, listen to music that makes you happy to be alive, or okay with wishing you werent.

And if you're a teenager trying to find your way, do it, no matter what holds you back. So remember, you're never too young for love and fulfillment and you're never too old for rebellion and change. Not sure why I just wrote all that, I guess I'm in a very shapable mood and this song caught me in the right way. We all want love and fulfillment and happiness and our own space. Rare indeed is the teen who is content with sitting at home with themselves. we're safe from all that noise and despair in our little bubble of rebellion. Getting old is inevitable, but for a teenager, it feels so far away. This is my favorite verse, it almost chokes me up It's like we only get a tiny window to learn who we really are as mature people, before the burden of modern life crushes who we wished to become. Because tomorrow, we may be putting on a suit and tie every day, paying bills, sitting at a desk. To realize that here we are, old enough to drive and stay out late and fall in love and everything, but we gotta make the best of it while we can. It's a very exciting, magical time, but it's also a very sad, fleeting one. Not only is it the prime and the epitome of our youth, but it's also when the prospect of being an adult really dawns on us. We learn so much about ourselves during this time. it's the prime of our youth, when we get out and see the world. This song makes me think of where I am now. Might help that I'm a disillusioned teenager, just like Billy is singing about here, but I guess that's what 90's alternative rock is all about. It brings something out in me that I dont think I have seen from any other song. That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues

I know you better than you fake it, to see We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guiltsįaster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope That we don't even care, as restless as we are They're not sure just what we have in store We were sure we'd never see an end to it allĪnd I don't even care to shake these zipper bluesĪnd we don't know just where our bones will restįorgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time

A thousand years song meaning