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Mar 20th 2007!⃝This song is about being genuine, respecting and appreciating love and not being a flirt. I can prove this in a breakdown of the important lyrics and although long, if you read it all you'll understand what the song is about:
"Save some face, you know you've only got one": This means exactly what it says, and refers to kissing or making out with everyone you meet and that you should "save some face" for someone you actually love.
"Change your ways, while you're young": If you keep flirting and misleading people and not commiting then this lifestyle will stay with you and you'll never find true love even when you're older.
"Looking back, at sunsests on the Eastside. We lost track, of the time": You grow up fast, and this refers to the point previously made about changing your ways before it's too late.
"Dreams, aren't what they used to be. Some things, slide by so carelessly" - The most important line in the song, completely summing up the meaning. People used to have values and morals about love and relationships and now society is obsessed with sex...dreams aren't what they used to be indeed. The second line is talking about love, and how in our efforts to seek quick, meaningless pleasure, love slides by.
"And someone will drive her around, down the same streets that I did": Describing someone that is a flirt, and is having a quick, meaningless 'relationship' with another guy soon after she had one with him.
