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The boy gives up his devout church life for a girl, and the girl gives up her family for the boy. They plan their life together, but in the end it doesn’t work out and becomes mere “memories.”
The moral is that there’s no point in a “five year plan”, because it’s probably not gonna work out anyway.
“Memories is a fun one ‘cause I was taking inspiration from Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel which you would never know by listening to it 'cause sonically it doesn’t sound like that. Lyrically, storywise, I was ripping from Scenes from an Italian Restaurant. You know Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of ‘75.“
“You know what song was really fun to write actually? It was with Butch Walker, a song called Memories. You know what’s so funny about it too is that I was in a really sour mood and some interviewer asked me the question of what was my least favorite song, and I was like “I don’t have an answer for that”, and they were like come on, you just have to pick one and I was like “Really dude? I don’t have an answer for that”. And they kept pressing and I was like “Okay, how about this song” and I said Memories. And I was like goddammit, you really pushed me and I don’t like that you did that. People really think that I hate that song, it’s so funny. People think I hate a lot of my songs, I don’t hate any of my songs.“
– Brendon Urie, via his Twitch stream
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