Sophie: Young Love

So, tell us who is Sophie?

Sophie is a young girl in love with a young boy.

I see. Sophie isn’t about someone you had a childhood crush on? Is she someone in your life right now?

No.

No?

No…I mean most of us fall in love with someone when we happen to be very young and naive to the world. I’m no exception.

Ok, now we’re getting somewhere. You wrote this song about someone in your life?

No…not at the moment. I wrote the song about two young people who have a real, true love for each other. I’m promoting young love.

Really? So, you think kids cutting classes, sneaking around behind their parent’s back, and ignoring what their parent’s told them do is a good thing?

Uh-uh. Uh-mmm…

And, kids having sex and fooling around is cool to you?

When it’s a real, true love it can’t be denied. Love follows through. Doesn’t matter how old you are.

Let’s look at these words:
Rainbows and butterflies
All of my hopes and dreams,
when I’m with you Sophie
They can only try, but they can’t take what we feel inside 

What does this mean? What are you trying to say?

Hopes, rainbows, dreams, and butterflies…well, those are all simply wonderful things.

Sounds like you want kids to be free to do drugs, have sex for the sake of being “in love”, and avoid getting an education, not to grow up and become upstanding citizens.

Well, that’s a very lop-sided and unbalanced view. Guess you’ve never been in love.

This is not about me. It’s about you…

Green Day.

Excuse me.

Wake Me Up When September Ends.

Hmmm?

I saw the video about a year ago. The one when the boy decides to go off to war and his girlfriend gets mad at him. But, he feels more obligated to serve in the war. The video was great because it was painful…

What?

…painfully clear that, in general, real, true love is constantly ignored and denied by so many people in this world. But, I know young love can be just as real as any other kind of love… so, I, put it in a song.

I see….so you want us to think that kids who are “in love” are capable of making responsible decisions that could ruin the rest of their lives?

Wake me up when this interview ends….