This song is about love-shyness. It is a condition where a heterosexual male is scared of rejection by an attractive woman and thus avoids many everyday social behaviors so that rejection is avoided.
The giveaway in this song is in the last two lines: "Our love is true / Just tell by the way I'm looking at you." The guy is too shy to tell the girl that he likes her. The first stanza is a message to other men to not become like him - go after someone you like and suck up the fears you may have. He also lets others know that she'll want to start playing games with their hearts - something love-shys absolutely despise.
Our love-shy protagonist alludes how he feels with the words "Well maybe I'm just tired / Tired of never knowing." Since he can't find the courage to tell her his feelings for her, his life is absolutely miserable.
Love-shyness afflicts about 1.5% of American heterosexual males, and has been researched once, the results published in a now-out-of-print book. It is the most debilitating form of social anxiety (if it can be called that), and more attention needs to be called to it.
This song is about love-shyness. It is a condition where a heterosexual male is scared of rejection by an attractive woman and thus avoids many everyday social behaviors so that rejection is avoided.
The giveaway in this song is in the last two lines: "Our love is true / Just tell by the way I'm looking at you." The guy is too shy to tell the girl that he likes her. The first stanza is a message to other men to not become like him - go after someone you like and suck up the fears you may have. He also lets others know that she'll want to start playing games with their hearts - something love-shys absolutely despise.
Our love-shy protagonist alludes how he feels with the words "Well maybe I'm just tired / Tired of never knowing." Since he can't find the courage to tell her his feelings for her, his life is absolutely miserable.
Love-shyness afflicts about 1.5% of American heterosexual males, and has been researched once, the results published in a now-out-of-print book. It is the most debilitating form of social anxiety (if it can be called that), and more attention needs to be called to it.