More songs by Kraak & Smaak
Description
It's as if the air between two people has suddenly become denser than concrete. Once it was easy to breathe together, but now every word sounds like an attempt to explain the obvious: everything is already somewhere else. The music seems to go round in circles, like a familiar argument where it has long been known who will leave first.
And in this detachment there is a strange relief - not anger, not resentment, just fatigue from other people's games, where the stakes are always higher than feelings. Everything has been decided, but it's still heated. The last “heat” lingers like an echo of something left unsaid - either the finale or the aftertaste, when it no longer hurts, but you still remember what happened.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Isn't it strange?
It feels like we've just gotten further away
Don't ask for one more chance, this isn't a game
That I'm gonna play
No more calling checkmate
Can't just be your way
Isn't it strange?
It feels like we've just gotten further away
Don't ask for one more chance, this isn't a game
That I'm gonna play
No more calling checkmate
Can't just be your way
Don't wanna play your silly games no more
So you can have your self in mind, no way
Don't wanna be your little pawn on the board
Don't wanna play your silly games
But isn't it strange?
It feels like we've just gotten further away
Don't ask for one more chance, this isn't a game
That I'm gonna play
No more calling checkmate
Can't just be your way
Day after day
'Cause you've been hoping I don't push you away
Can't just call me out of nowhere, find a way
That I'm gonna play
It all seems a game
Can't just be your way
Isn't it strange?
Can't be your way
Can't be your way