loss of innocence
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The lyrics contemplate the fleeting nature of time and the loss of innocence, set against the backdrop of a love affair that's hit the rocks.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024
For MJ, there is a lingering of guilt and shame because Brandi was robbed of what would have surely been happy memories, now tainted by a fundamental loss of innocence, all under her watch.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2024
Trefry adds that it’s also “about the loss of innocence and coming of age and how you are changed and ruined and saved by these formative events that happened in high school.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2023
It all ends tragically, of course, and one finds oneself mourning for the boy’s loss of innocence as much as for the doomed characters.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022
I was now fourteen; it is the misery of man that he arrives at understanding through the loss of innocence.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
