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Huh. I always figured it was a blackjack metaphor, about pushing one's luck.
by colanderman 8y ago
Huh. I always figured it was a blackjack metaphor, about pushing one's luck.
- binomialxenon 8y agoYeah, that was my impression too. Giving the song more credit than it deserves, but I suppose that's Death of the Author.
- evincarofautumn 8y agoWhereas I thought it was like the blackjack metaphor you might use at a bar for “give me another drink”—the singer wants another “hit” of her ex-lover, as if they were a drug, because her loneliness is “killing her” like withdrawal. In fact I thought it was a thinly veiled song about drugs, framed as about love.
- logfromblammo 8y agoI also initially read it as drugs, and "your love is like heroin" in particular, being both self-destructive and highly addictive.