It's a script that we've used so many times
A different day, but always the same tired lines
Jump cut to the scene where we always seem to get into a fight
Then a slow dissolve where we make up and think everything's alright
We get lost in love's confusion
It's a sad saga of two broken people
We own the film rights and make too many sequels
Jump cut to the scene where we always seem to get into a fight
Then a slow dissolve where we make up and think everything's alright
We get lost in love's confusion
It's so typical, we started out as friends
Now we're two lovers lost in the fog
It's too predictable you know how it ends
But we suffer through the awful dialogue
And it's the same every time
But it never gets old
Jump cut to the scene where we always seem to get into a fight
Then a slow dissolve where we make up and think everything's alright
Always gotta make a scene, always gotta get into a fight
Every time we make up we think that everything will be alright
We get lost in love's confusion
We get lost in love's confusion


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    Some have suggested that this song is about polyamory, the practice of multiple simultaneous openly-engaged-in romantic relationships--think polygamy (or polyandry) without the marriage. In fact, at one time, Googling this song gave hits mostly on websites devoted to polyamory, and listed this as a song on the subject.

    However, I am not at all sure that is correct. I suspect that "I can't choose 'cause they're identical" uses "identical" to mean something more like "sharing the same identity, that is, one and the same". I think he is (sort-of) complaining that his girlfriend shows wild variances in what she wants to do etc. with no apparent warning. She changes her mind all the time for no apparent reason.

    Why? Well first off there are not too many women in the UK who would tolerate their boyfriend carrying on so openly with another woman that the three of them would all dance together, much less all sleep in the same bed ("One wants to read in bed / the other wants the light out"). Second, that "One wants to marry me / the other wants to break up / One wants to call it off / the other wants to make up," would hardly seem to present any unusual problem: if he had an unmanageable two girlfriends, he would be going to just having one. However, a one-woman-with-two-personas situation is one that he actually likes, for the variety he experiences with her. It's just that he's not always sure how best to handle / relate to her. Is this not just a new way to express a common complaint of sorts that men have made for a loooong time?

    NAwlinsContrarianon November 30, 2009   Link

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