Too Young

The speaker looks back on a close relationship from youth with both happiness and sadness. They remember having fun and feeling that they could face anything together, but the other person has left. The speaker still misses them and wonders whether the past matters to them too.

“Turn back time” means wishing the past could happen again. “Living like we would live forever” suggests youthful confidence: they acted as if nothing could change or end. The comparison to “a runaway train” makes the person’s departure seem sudden and impossible to stop.

The speaker suggests that being young may have made the relationship less able to last, but this is only a possibility, not a clear explanation. The question about whether the other person feels the same shows uncertainty: perhaps the memory is shared, or perhaps only the speaker still holds on to it. The song can be heard as mourning both a person and a time in life that cannot be recovered.