Playing for Keeps
Playing for Keeps: Love's Complicated Game
Lyrics
It's so simple
Expressing that the situation or relationship is straightforward.
And complicated.
Highlighting the complexity of the situation or relationship.
The way you can crush me.
Describing the emotional impact of someone's actions on the speaker.
No matter how much this hurts,
Acknowledging the pain but emphasizing a sense of finality or completion.
This is through.
Stating that the situation has concluded or reached an endpoint.
I get as far as your door
Expressing a physical attempt to approach someone.
Before i get caught.
Suggesting a fear of being discovered or facing consequences.
I make up excuses
Creating false reasons to be close to someone.
Just to touch you and I can't stop
Describing an uncontrollable desire to touch the person.
I can't stop.
Reiterating the inability to control or restrain emotions.
So are we playing for keeps?
Pondering the seriousness and commitment in the relationship.
The days begin and they don't end for weeks.
Reflecting on the enduring nature of time spent together.
Leave me left out
Feeling excluded or left out of the other person's life.
Of anything to do with you.
Expressing a desire for connection with the person.
Excuse me while I fall apart.
Conveying emotional vulnerability and a sense of falling apart.
Don't flatter yourself sweetheart.
Rejecting any self-centered assumptions by the other person.
Let me take the wheel
Suggesting a willingness to take control of the situation.
And I'll crash this car.
Metaphorically offering to disrupt the status quo or the relationship.
Do you have to make this so hard?
Questioning the necessity of making things difficult in the relationship.
You're so good at pretending everything is alright.
Observing the other person's adeptness at concealing true feelings.
You're as welcome as cancer
Using a metaphor to convey an unwelcome or harmful presence.
But my door is always unlocked.
Indicating accessibility despite the negative metaphorical comparison.
So are we playing for keeps?
Repeating the question about the seriousness and permanence of the relationship.
The days begin and they don't end for weeks.
Reiterating the idea that time spent together feels prolonged.
Leave me left out
Reinforcing the sense of being excluded or left out.
Of anything to do with you.
Expressing a desire for involvement or connection.
Excuse me while I fall apart.
Echoing the earlier expression of emotional vulnerability.
Don't flatter yourself sweetheart.
Rejecting any self-flattering assumptions made by the other person.
Let me take the wheel
Offering to take control and potentially disrupt the relationship.
And I'll crash this car.
Continuing the metaphor of taking control and causing a disturbance.
Do you have to make this so hard?
Questioning the need for the relationship to be challenging or difficult.
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