A reference to the popular malt liquor Mickey’s

A reference to the influential Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. Todd Pipes has some abstract, odd works hanging on the walls of his apartment, in fact, the same ones his brother has along with the same black picture frames.

Channeling his inner Snoop Dogg, Todd Pipes tells his former love that he in fact does not love these hoes.

Jus Allah references the popular country song by Carrie Underwood “Jesus Take the Wheel”. But he has no faith in Jesus due to JMT’s militant Islam beliefs.

The singer references when he and his love saw the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s to remind her that they have at least one thing in common and not all of their relationship is lost, giving them a glimmer of hope for their future.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s is often praised for actress Audrey Hepburn’s fantastic performance, it won an Academy Award for best song and also currently holds an 88% “Fresh” rating on Rotton Tomatoes

Considering Jus Allah lives the thug lifestyle, making fast money, slangin' dope, pimpin' hoes, killing people and whatever other crimes he’s involved in, he forgot to buy a Valentine to express his love for whomever, maybe these tips will help you next time, Jus.

Maybe he has an underly attached girlfriend.

In another excerpt from the interview with The Village Voice, Brian King had this to say about the song:

all of our friends that were around us were getting married, and having kids, and buying houses and getting these sort of jobs, and following on these paths, and there was this sort of…we didn’t come from a place where all of our friends played in bands, we were the only people that did that. We didn’t know anyone that played music or was interested in these sorts of things. Everyone had these, sort of, textbook lives. And “Younger Us” was kind of this rallying behind watching your friends get pressured into lives that you were unsure they wanted and they were unsure they wanted.

And a repetition of the line “we saw the midnight sun” as a reference to a phenomena that happens rarely.

In an interview with The Voice Village Brian King had the following to say about the song that reminisces on Japandroids' younger years:

I guess you just wake up one day and realize, “Well, I went to University, and got this degree, and got this job, and now I’m on this sort of path” that your society or your parents or whoever is sort of telling you this is the right path to be on, but you feel that you’re too young to be on this path already. There’s so much stuff that you still wanted to do, or expected to do, that you’re kind of almost being told that you’re too old for that now. It was just kind of like, “Well, fuck that.”

On the busy streets of Vancouver one might get lost in a sea of people. Our singer reminisces on the times when he and his buddies had to wade through the people to get to their destinations.

When someone is completely exposed, naked, they are at their most vulnerable, but for many it is empowering and gives them a “rush.” This can be interpreted as two young loves experimenting with their bodies sexually for the first time, being completely exposed to one another and also feeling a rush of excitement and lust. And in this memory lies a plea for youth to make it’s way back to the singer’s life.