anonymous February 17th, 2010 11:58AM  
I think this song is about this older gentelmen telling a younger boy that when he's older he will understand things he never understood before or he might not it all depends on what he does. I sure hope I got this right, I might be way off so if I am I'm sorry:)hope this at least helps you to figure out the corret meaning:)

anonymous June 12th, 2010 09:14PM  
This is about a person with more life experience telling a person who has never faced tragedy to watch out, it will come eventually, and that the only way we keep the world going is by each person taking a turn holding the weight of the world until the person can't stand it anymore and passes it on to the next person.