What is the meaning behind the song ''he would be sixteen'' by Michelle wright?

Answer 1

It's about a woman who has been forced to give up her baby son for adoption when he was a baby, and who never knew him.

She is getting out of her car one Friday night in October after coming home from work, and hears a celebration going on at the high school down the road- either a football match or a Homecoming Queen being applauded. It sets her reflecting upon the son she never knew, whom she had as a result of a brief involvement with a man she never really knew sixteen years ago. Her parents advised her to give up the child for adoption, knowing that she could never support him as a single mother- she knows that it was the right thing to do, but she still feels the pain of his loss, remembering that she never even got to cradle him in her arms and realising that wherever he is now, he is sixteen years old. She wonders what he's like- what he looks like, whether he is driving yet, even whether he has a teenage love of his own, and it all hurts her massively to think upon it.

It's really a song on the entire theme of having to give up your baby child for adoption.