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Expressing a call for attention, asking someone to listen.
Listen
Reiteration of the call for attention, emphasizing the importance of listening.
I can't spend the night
Expressing an inability or unwillingness to spend the night.
I can't spend the night with you
Specifically, unable to spend the night with the person being addressed.
Fighting with you
Acknowledging a conflict or disagreement.
Both saying words that we know just ain't true
Both parties involved are uttering words that they know are not true.
Know how it goes, can we skip the preview
Suggesting a desire to skip the prelude or preview of an argument.
I wanna take you out and make you smile
Expressing a wish to bring joy by taking the person out and making them smile.
Cause fighting girl
Acknowledging the importance of the person in the speaker's life.
You're my whole world
Emphasizing the significant role the person plays, even when they are wrong.
Even when you're in the wrong
Highlighting that, in the context of love, being in the wrong doesn't matter.
It don't matter cause it's love
Reiterating that love transcends faults and mistakes.
It don't matter cause na na na
Using "na na na" as a placeholder for the idea that it doesn't matter.
I can't stay mad
Stating the inability to remain angry.
I can't stay mad at you
Reiterating the difficulty in staying angry at the person.
Stay mad at you
Emphasizing the challenge of maintaining anger.
Stay mad at you
Repeating the difficulty of staying mad at the person.
Stay mad at you
Continuing to express the challenge of remaining angry.
These arguments girl
Labeling the conflicts or disagreements with the term "arguments."
They never solve a thing, no
Highlighting that arguments never lead to resolution.
And we just sweep it under the rug and hope it goes away babe
Describing a tendency to ignore issues, hoping they will disappear over time.
Like a genie and a lamp, and you hoping we can rub it and we both forget the past yeah
Using metaphors of a genie and a lamp to express a desire to forget the past.
But the moments in the past year
Acknowledging moments from the past, both good and bad.
Take the good with all the bad yeah
Encouraging acceptance of both positive and negative experiences.
Cause I believe in closure
Expressing belief in the importance of closure.
In healing wounds that broke ya
Stressing the need to heal wounds caused by past conflicts.
And maybe that's your problem
Pointing out a potential issue of not addressing problems.
You never had to solve one tell me baby
Posing a question about the person's experience with problem-solving.
Don't you think that lately
Questioning if the person has been avoiding solving issues.
All we doin' is fighting, but girl
Observing a pattern of constant fighting lately.
I can't spend the night
Reiterating the inability to spend the night due to ongoing conflict.
I can't stay mad
Reaffirming the difficulty in staying mad at the person.
I can't stay mad at you
Reiterating the challenge of maintaining anger towards the person.
Stay mad at you
Emphasizing the ongoing difficulty of staying mad at the person.
Stay mad at you
Continuing to express the challenge of remaining angry.
Stay mad at you
Concluding with the repeated difficulty of staying mad at the person.
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