The song to me is as much a cautionary tale told from the perspective of being a man in a relationship that is all fun and wild until the girl ends up pregnant, he has no job and possibly no good prospects at the time and she was in school, maybe college, maybe high school, they decide to have an abortion. They think they can move on together afterwards, but after a year she breaks it off with him, he sees a young girl in a convertible at a stoplight and laments his lost lover