I think the main meaning behind this song is that you don't grow older, you grow better.

And he's happy with where he's at in life. But it's possible he looks at his younger fans who feel kinship towards him and he think if he was closer to their age, they would feel intimate towards him, not just some kind of big bro relationship. He's grown older and see all these bands coming up with crazy hair and neon clothes and says to himself, 'If this is what is cool nowadays, then I am not cool.' When you get older, the need to be cool gets less and less important. He should have been more studious so he'd have something interesting to say when people who look up to him talk to him. Particularly the lines 'Well there's lots of smart ideas / In books I never read / When the girls come talk to me / I wish to hell I had' and 'Back when I was younger / I was someone you'd have liked' are bittersweet. I took something away completely different from this song that the previous posters. There's still some living left when your prime comes and goesĪnd They'll say 'All the salt in the world couldn't melt that ice'Īnd they'll say 'Lord give me a chance to shake his hand' Got an old guitar I've had for years I'd let you buy And they'll say 'All the salt in the world couldn't melt that ice'Īnd they'll say 'Lord give me the chance to shake that hand'

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