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I knew I took the path
That you would never want for me
I know I let you down, didn't I?
So many sleepless nights
Where you were waiting up on me
Well I'm just a slave unto the
In an interview the Imagine Dragons said that this song was about the bad relationship Dan had with his parents. So keeping that in mind:
He did what his parents didn't like. He would go out past curfew, he blamed it on the night.