Between the video itself and the comments below it, WHY WASN'T I WARNED??

Benny Mardones explains the meaning of the song saying it was about his neighbors daughter and her family, she was 16 and used to walk his dog and when writing this song with Robert tepper she came into his apartment to walk his dog and tepper said she was very pretty and Benny said "she's only 16 leave her alone." Hint the line of the song then he said the rest was based on the 16yr olds father who left her and ran away with a woman who was 24. So there you go. The video is a little weird but he didn't really want to get with the 16yr old he said they had a platonic relationship.

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Too bad you're the only one who seems to know that. LOL

Benny got lambasted in the comments section

If you don't know

I really wish he got the word out to more people about the story behind the song so we could all enjoy the video more. He just freaked people out the way he was staring at the 16 year-old girl in the video, and then he took her away from her parents and made out with her

Good read here

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/benny-mardones/into-the-night

I read it. But I still think it was rather stupid for him to PASSIONATELY kiss a teenage girl the way he did in the video. More than one commenter said that he should have used another actor to play the part

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