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And it will take death for him to leave her. A play on the famous phrase: “till death do up part”.
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He’s comparing his girl to a diamond, an extremely hard and precious mineral, saying that’s she’s precious and beautiful—like a diamond.
Also, diamonds are hard—in fact, the hardest mineral known to man—and he’s saying he’ll hold on hard to his diamond. A little play on words.
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He will hold on to her even if his hand blister, meaning he won’t let go of her even if it hurts him.
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His life was falling apart—going downhill—and she made it better—cushioned it.
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Returning to the car wordplay, Duar says he is glad he met the girl, and thanks the Higher Power.
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Continuing the fish-related wordplay, Duar says he is not a clown—meaning stupid—and also says the girl is his fresh selection. Fresh selection is fresh fish for sale in a market, that means she is all he wants.
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Use of corny car references being used to say “take me anywhere.”
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The first portion, “But I don’t talk back,”, connects with the last and states that even though many women have tried to come onto Kendrick in his past, he hasn’t even responded back to them.
“I put my life on tracks” refers to a common theme in Kendrick’s music on how he wants his tracks to serve as the story of his life. This is how he talks to his fans and anybody else in certain cases, as he did with his album good kid, m.A.A.d city. Instead of replying brashly face to face, Kendrick decides to wait, and arrange his thoughts properly and let everything out in a good track.
Its head which like your fist
Is large, bald, beakless, Charles Simic – Fork
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Referring to how a hand holding a fork and stabbing the food on a plate looks similar to a bird pecking at its food.
See?
Have you ever put that much thought into the beauty of a hand using a fork?
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What you usually do with a fork.
That looks so good.
