“Cinderella” is a complex song of love and regret about a young man who turns his back on his pregnant girlfriend and then, decades later, sits in a rocking chair and reflects on the callousness of his long-ago decision. Larry Burnett wrote it when he was 16.
“My standard answer is that it’s a reflection of how screwed up I was as a teenager,” Burnett says. “Most of what I write isn’t really about me — it’s observations and things I notice going on around me, and about life in general. It was just a story that occurred to me.”
