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  1. Jan 2023
    1. Boys only want love if it's tortureDon't say I didn't say, I didn't warn yaBoys only want love if it's torture

      Implying that the boys side in the relationship is a lot better or easier and saying that the girls side is torture.

    2. 'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream

      She puts on a mask whenever she meets him but once he gets to know her or be in a relationship he realizes what she is like.

    3. Cause you know I love the playersAnd you love the game

      The speaker doesn't care about relationships and she treats them as a game but her past lovers didn't think that way.

    1. 'Cause you got that James Dean daydream look in your eyeAnd I got that red lip classic thing that you likeAnd when we go crashing down, we come back every time'Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of styleYou got that long hair, slicked back, white T-shirtAnd I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt (a tight little skirt)And when we go crashing down, we come back every time'Cause we never go out of style (we never go), we never go out of style

      Repeated a second time in the poem

    2. That you've been out and about with some other girl, some other girl" He says, "What you heard is true, but ICan't stop thinkin' 'bout you and I"

      He has been hanging out with another girl but still favors her over the other girl.

    3. You got that James Dean daydream look in your eyeAnd I got that red lip classic thing that you like

      Both of these are things or qualities about them that they each like.

    4. And I should just tell you to leave 'cause IKnow exactly where it leads, but IWatch us go 'round and 'round each time

      The same thing happens each time they get back together maybe and one of them keeps going back to the other.

    1. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

      She may have moved or gone away from where those things were and she misses them but she also stated it wasn't a disaster because she got used to losing things.

    2. I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went.

      She may have lost her family or parents and she had to get used to losing significant things in her life.

    3. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel.

      Lose something more significant to you and lose more things.

    4. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.

      the author is saying that you should try to lose something every day and get used to it over time so there will be no disaster whenever you do lose something.

    5. The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

      So many things are already going to result in a loss or you know it is coming so that when they experience that loss they are not that affected by it.