When I was a kid, I always loved play-places that some of those fast food restaurants had. It was fun to explore tunnels and passageways as I began to make the place my own. Slides were fine too, but I always just preferred to use them as additional tunnels to get from place to place. My joy was exploring, not temporarily being pulled down and out of the maze. I had fun my own way, why should someone tell me how to have fun anyway?
I got upset when places started to enforce the rule that you had to wear socks while you played in the tunnels because that ruined everything! Socks have no traction to help climb up those steep slippery tunnels other people call slides. That didn’t stop me however, I continued to explore every inch of those labyrinths by climbing around until I inevitably outgrew them. For a while I still used my little brother and younger cousins as an excuse to have my fun exploring the tunnels while I said I was “watching them.” But soon they grew up too.
This song is all about that childlike joy. With a hint of rebellion, it reminds me of the times I didn’t care and just had fun. The world gets so complicated as we grow older with so many new things to worry about and rules to follow. When we were kids, we were all more honest with ourselves and didn’t get caught up as much in what other people said or thought. Kids don’t have time to worry about life, I didn’t put any lyrics in the song because kids barely have enough time to sit around talking either. There’s just fun to be had and adventures to go on.
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