I have a different thought than previous commentators...How about the idea of playing hard to get? The song is called "Hiding Out" so that's clue # 1. But also the stanzas which I would call the verses: "I take it to heart..." are very clearly remarking on that special kind of infatuation that comes with new love. Before you've expressed any feelings toward each other, when you're still just "friends", everything is a big deal--every touch, every movement of the eyes, twitch of the mouth, sighing, clearing of the throat, body language, the smallest brush of their body against yours--even how they act around other people can be taken and analyzed, flipped and turned inside out till you've driven yourself crazy trying to interpret it.
For those of us with over-active imaginations and dangerously soft hearts (bad combination) everything that person does and says is taken not lightly but very, very heavily. "You take it too hard when I don't even feel it." = "I don't even remember saying/doing that and it meant absolutely nothing, yet you're reading into it these dire circumstances and misinterpreting it." Then, "Cause you're paying for my love." = "Yeah, I'm playing hard to get, but I'm not trying to kill you--you're putting yourself through this; let's not go overboard here." Because the game of playing hard to get can be fun in the very beginning, when taken lightly and used sparingly, but played with the wrong person--the overly sensitive over-thinker--it can become this surreal mess of fixations and aimless circles of thought, feeling, and conversation. The two stanzas that start, "Oh, so many times..." illustrate how these games can easily and quickly go past the point of no return. "We could've stopped this, we had plenty of chances, but instead we carried on in our rhythm of uncertainty. Now we've gotten so comfortable in it that we don't know how to act otherwise."
The last lines bring it back around full circle. You play hard to get because "Nobody wants anything unless you give it to them like it's worth something." "You have to make them work for it (...Right?) so they will truly appreciate it because otherwise they won't appreciate it at all. You have to make them pay for it."
So all the times she repeats: "My money/Your money is paid." It's meant to be a plea. She (and/or he) is crying out desperately to win what she thinks she deserves and vice versa, as well as a reassurance in the end. "...Your money is paid--it's paid, it's paid." Then it follows with: "Will you find me hiding out?" Because even though the person has been assured of her love, and they may have agreed to cut the shenanigans and be real with each other, they still can't shake the natural inclination to play hard to get. You want to run, but you also hope to be caught.
Or maybe this over-active imagination is over-thinking all this and reading too much into a little 3.5 minute song--haha! Sound familiar? See above.
I have a different thought than previous commentators...How about the idea of playing hard to get? The song is called "Hiding Out" so that's clue # 1. But also the stanzas which I would call the verses: "I take it to heart..." are very clearly remarking on that special kind of infatuation that comes with new love. Before you've expressed any feelings toward each other, when you're still just "friends", everything is a big deal--every touch, every movement of the eyes, twitch of the mouth, sighing, clearing of the throat, body language, the smallest brush of their body against yours--even how they act around other people can be taken and analyzed, flipped and turned inside out till you've driven yourself crazy trying to interpret it.
For those of us with over-active imaginations and dangerously soft hearts (bad combination) everything that person does and says is taken not lightly but very, very heavily. "You take it too hard when I don't even feel it." = "I don't even remember saying/doing that and it meant absolutely nothing, yet you're reading into it these dire circumstances and misinterpreting it." Then, "Cause you're paying for my love." = "Yeah, I'm playing hard to get, but I'm not trying to kill you--you're putting yourself through this; let's not go overboard here." Because the game of playing hard to get can be fun in the very beginning, when taken lightly and used sparingly, but played with the wrong person--the overly sensitive over-thinker--it can become this surreal mess of fixations and aimless circles of thought, feeling, and conversation. The two stanzas that start, "Oh, so many times..." illustrate how these games can easily and quickly go past the point of no return. "We could've stopped this, we had plenty of chances, but instead we carried on in our rhythm of uncertainty. Now we've gotten so comfortable in it that we don't know how to act otherwise."
The last lines bring it back around full circle. You play hard to get because "Nobody wants anything unless you give it to them like it's worth something." "You have to make them work for it (...Right?) so they will truly appreciate it because otherwise they won't appreciate it at all. You have to make them pay for it."
So all the times she repeats: "My money/Your money is paid." It's meant to be a plea. She (and/or he) is crying out desperately to win what she thinks she deserves and vice versa, as well as a reassurance in the end. "...Your money is paid--it's paid, it's paid." Then it follows with: "Will you find me hiding out?" Because even though the person has been assured of her love, and they may have agreed to cut the shenanigans and be real with each other, they still can't shake the natural inclination to play hard to get. You want to run, but you also hope to be caught.
Or maybe this over-active imagination is over-thinking all this and reading too much into a little 3.5 minute song--haha! Sound familiar? See above.