budco420 November 6th, 2005 07:13PM  

I think it's about losing a girl and trying to get over her but he's pissed because he could see it coming. He decides it's all part of growing up.

anonymous November 25th, 2005 08:42PM  

It's basically just about the things in life that get you down. I think the writer realized how much it happens in life, and while he is growing up friends come and go.

Cruelwinter January 9th, 2006 08:31AM  

It's over and yes it will happen again, once or twice (x 20!). Oh well, suck it up because it's part of growing up.

PaulJohnGeorgeRingo4 June 23rd, 2006 11:15PM  

If anyone has seen the video of this song, it mainly describes the whole song...you're out with a bunch of your friends at the movies and then you see your ex g/f with another guy and mainly what goes through your mind is...were not g/f b/f anymore but we are still friends and what mark does is act all funny in front of her and her new b/f and now mark says "well I guess this is growing up" meaning this new guy really hates what I'm doing in front of them and acting wierd and silly...i should grow up now and act my age and forget about it all.

Jordo_420 August 17th, 2006 11:56PM  

It's about a guy whos girlfriend just broke up with him but he still likes her. When he goes out he is worried about seeing her with another guy but decides it is all part of growing up.

anonymous October 16th, 2006 06:01PM  

He broke up with his girlfriend.

anonymous October 8th, 2008 10:43PM  

This song was written about a imaginary break up, Mark even said that.

anonymous November 23rd, 2008 02:32AM  

Mark actually wrote it in about 5 minutes in his car about an imaginary break up.

anonymous February 28th, 2009 08:40PM  

The song was written in 5 minutes, yet it has a meaning. The song is about how a man is living in a town where all of his friends, and his ex girlfriend, used to live. After many years, his friends come and go, and his girlfriend breaks up with him. He thinks its all a part of growing up. This next part may be debatable. He moves to the town his friends were, and he sees his girlfriend at the movies with a guy, and they pretend its okay. After the guy leaves, he also leaves, but doesn't come back. The girl then looks for someone to tell, but "everybodys gone, and you've been here for too long, to face this on your own, well, I guess this is growing up."

anonymous May 3rd, 2009 10:26PM  

The song is actually trying to say that a young man has been dumped by his girlfriend for her own reasons and he has trouble dealing with the breakup emotionally. He turns to his friends to discuss it and for their comfort, but eventually his friends move on or get tired of talking about it. Later he is still thinking about what happened to cause the break up. He then sees his ex-girlfriend at a movie with her new boyfriend and claims that when the new boyfriend breaks up with her she will want to get back together with him (starting couple) but by then he will have moved on and she will go through the same process as he did - going to a friend for comfort/they get tired of it and move on- and she will also have to deal with the situation alone.