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Originally Posted by HitterD
See, I used to hate that "time of your life" song, because it was always used as a stupid graduation song. Funny thing is, the song is not at all intended to be happy.
I really appreciated the song once more once I learned (interview with Billy Joe in Guitar World Mag) what the interntion of the song actually was. It is written as a bitter goodbye to a longtime girlfriend who left him because he was always on tour. Listen to the words in that song, he is actually implying "i hope you had the time of your life while you were with me, because now you wont ever have this chance again."
I guess I learn to appreciate a song as poetry sometimes, and can appreciate a song more once I learn why it was written and what the lyrics actually mean.
Anyway, just an interesting (hopefully) tidbit.
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People always seem to not really understand what BJ is writing on some songs, such as "wake me up when september ends". Its about is dad dying when he was 7 years old.........for some reason (I think its the video) people think its about this whole "anti war" theme. If you actually get to listen to the live version its actually a quite touching song that you can tell was written not to be a mainstream hit........just a last homage to his dad.