Anyone Can Play Guitar

The lyrics mix a wish for safety with a desire to become someone important. At first, the speaker asks “Destiny” to protect them from the world, suggesting they feel vulnerable or overwhelmed. Later, they imagine disaster and picture themselves calmly holding a guitar. The mood is both anxious and playful: the speaker seems afraid of the world, yet dreams of escaping ordinary life through music and fame.

The image of standing on a beach while London burns contrasts a peaceful, personal scene with a huge public disaster. It may suggest retreating into music when everything else feels unstable. Wanting to be in a band “when I get to heaven” makes music sound like a path to a perfect afterlife—or a fantasy of belonging. The repeated wish to grow long hair and become Jim Morrison points to copying a famous rock-star image, not simply learning to play an instrument.

The claim that anyone can play guitar and “won’t be a nothing anymore” suggests that music might give a person identity, recognition, or a sense of worth. But the lyric may also gently mock that belief: a guitar cannot necessarily solve confusion or make someone important. The speaker’s confidence is therefore uncertain. Their rock-star dream can be read as sincere hope, comic exaggeration, or both.