Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: power-pop
Song Meaning of “Play Me for a Fool” by Accelerators
This song is about heartbreak and the inevitable pain that comes with it. It speaks of a love lost and the desperation to get it back. The singer laments the fact that he can’t take back the past, and wonders why his former partner had to go and “play him for a fool”. He asks why they had to be so cruel and go their separate ways, when all he ever wanted was for them to be together. He expresses his feelings of regret for things he could have done differently, and questions if he would be better off just forgetting what happened and moving on. Despite this, he knows that it would never happen because the pain of lost love has become part of him. There’s an emotional undertone to this song that touches on a something that many of us can relate to – the struggle of wanting to move on from a relationship, yet still feeling the need to cling onto the past.