The song presents a familiar message that doing hard work and enjoying pleasure are opposed. What will you choose? It is a song about making choices in a relationship over time, perhaps reflecting on the recent past and looking forward to the future.
The repetition of 'or' is interesting in light of the early message that lovers can actually have both (Commit to the work of both / If your love has energy / You have chemistry). In my view, the song turns on this 'if' as much as it does on the 'or'. Each choice about how to handle the relationship is more loaded when both/and is also possible. To an impersonal you, the speaker poses a challenge. Does your love have the energy to commit this 'or' to an 'and'?
I find it an incredibly romantic invitation to make something new together. Are we up to it? What shall it be?
The song presents a familiar message that doing hard work and enjoying pleasure are opposed. What will you choose? It is a song about making choices in a relationship over time, perhaps reflecting on the recent past and looking forward to the future.
The repetition of 'or' is interesting in light of the early message that lovers can actually have both (Commit to the work of both / If your love has energy / You have chemistry). In my view, the song turns on this 'if' as much as it does on the 'or'. Each choice about how to handle the relationship is more loaded when both/and is also possible. To an impersonal you, the speaker poses a challenge. Does your love have the energy to commit this 'or' to an 'and'?
I find it an incredibly romantic invitation to make something new together. Are we up to it? What shall it be?