"Sugar Mountain" uses an amusement park as a metaphor for childood.

When we're little kids, life seems like a magical carnival. We spend our time playing and having fun. Mom and Dad are around to take care of us, and we don't even know that we could ever want more out of life.

But time goes by, we get older, and the things that once made us happy DON'T make us happy any more. As we become teenagers, we start to take an interest in sex, and we start to develop that charming adolescent sarcasm and cynicism.

The homes and families we loved as children can start to feel like a prison, and we start to long to escape from them. "You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain," and you can't remain an innocent, happy child forever.

But even when we begin the necessary process of growing up and becoming independent, somewhere deep inside us, there's still a piece of the little children we once were, and we know we'll miss the things we left behind. Even though we know we HAVE to grow up, we sometimes wish we could stay carefree kids just a LITTLE longer.