Solitaire
Unlocking Life's Game: Solitaire of Fate by Suzanne Vega
Lyrics
Black on the red and the red on the black.
Metaphorical depiction of contrasts, suggesting challenges or oppositions.
It's a tic of a tired mind.
Reference to a mental state, a repetitive behavior indicative of weariness.
Come and sit down, won't you try your luck.
Invitation to engage in a game of chance, possibly reflecting life's unpredictability.
See if you unwind.
Encouragement to try one's luck and see if relaxation follows.
Never use your threes and twos.
Advice to avoid specific cards based on superstition.
Follow superstition.
Emphasizes the importance of adhering to superstitions to avoid failure.
Otherwise you are going to lose.
Warning that not following superstitions may lead to loss.
Compulsion makes you listen.
Highlighting the compelling nature of superstitions and the need to heed them.
Take what's wrong, and make it go right.
Encouragement to transform negative situations into positive outcomes.
Weave it like a prayer.
Suggests approaching challenges with a prayer-like mindset, weaving positivity.
Wonder if you you'll spend the night?
Curiosity about spending time alone, engaged in the contemplative game of solitaire.
Playing solitaire?
Connecting the act of making things right with the solitary game of solitaire.
Do it again, when you find you're all done.
Encouragement to repeat the process of turning negative situations into positive ones.
Like an idiot savant.
Comparison to an idiot savant, highlighting the repetitive and skilled nature of the process.
Shuffle up your luck. You see, you almost won.
Reflects on almost achieving success but needing to continue the effort.
Now wrestle down what you want.
Encouragement to persist in pursuing one's desires and goals.
Jack on the Queen, and the ten on the Jack.
Describes a repetitive and perhaps joyful act of arranging cards in a specific order.
It's a happy repetition.
Characterizes the repetition as a source of happiness.
You and your fate in a kind of check-mate.
Relates personal fate to a strategic move in a game of chess.
And you are your only competition.
Acknowledges oneself as the main competitor in the game of life.
Take what's wrong, and make it go right.
Reiteration of the theme of transforming negatives into positives through prayer-like weaving.
Weave it like a prayer.
Revisiting the idea of approaching challenges with a prayer-like mindset.
Wonder if you you'll spend the night?
Repetition of the contemplative act of playing solitaire and its potential impact.
Playing solitaire?
Pondering the possibility of spending time engaged in the solitary game of solitaire.
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