Wicked Games

Watching music videos the other day I came across the song Wicked Games by The Weeknd.  I love the sound of the song and I think the video is really artistic and unique - and the production looks surprisingly simple.  When it gets down to it, however, I am a lyric person because I want to know exactly what I'm singing.  So I'm listening to this song and not getting it at all.  It sounds dark and twisted as hell.  Definitely not a "happy" song.  So I looked it up.  Here are the lyrics.

I left my girl back home

I don't love her no more

And she'll never fucking know that

These fucking eyes that I'm staring at

Let me see that ass

Look at all this cash

And I emptied out my cards to her

Now I'm fucking leaning on that

Bring your love baby I could bring my shame

Bring the drugs baby I could bring my pain

I got my heart right here

I got my scars right here

Bring the cups baby I could bring the drank

Bring your body baby I could bring you fame

And that's my motherf*cking words too

Just let me motherf*cking love you

Listen ma I'll give you all I got

Get me off of this

I need confidence in myself

Listen ma I'l give you all of me

Give me all of it

I need all of it to myself

So tell me you love me

Only for tonight

Only for one night

Even though you don't love me

Just tell me you love me

I'll give you what I need

I'll give you all of me

Even though you don't love me

Let me see you dance

I love to watch you dance

Take you down another level

And get you dancing with the devil

Take a shot of this

But I'm warning you

I'm on that shit you can't smell baby

So put down your perfume

Bring you love baby I could bring my shame

Bring the drugs baby I could bring my pain

I got my heart right here

I got muy scars right here

Bring the cups baby I could bring the drank

Bring your body baby I could bring you fame

And that's my motherf*cking word too

So let me motherf*cking love you

Listen ma I'll give you all I got

Get me off of this

I need confidence in myself

Listen ma I'll give you all of me

Give me all of it

I need all of it to myself

So tell me you love me

Only for tonight

Only for one night

Even though you don't love me

Juste tell me you love me

I'll give you what I need

I'll give you all of me

Even though you don't love me

It seems like lyrics have been getting more artistic lately.  Anywho, I'm thinking the song is like a confessional.  He's pretty-much singing about the things that 99.9% of basic rappers rap about - strippers, getting drunk/high, debauchery, what-have-you.  But throughout the song he's confessing the vulnerability that someone in that lifestyle has.  "Bring your love baby, I could bring my shame."  "Even though you don't love me, just tell me you love me."  "I need confidence in myself."

These are not things that a man sitting up in the King of Diamonds would openly shout at a stripper.  (Or maybe they do.  I don't know - I don't strip . . . in public.)  Regardless, that just popped into my mind and I thought I'd share that with the world.  What are your thoughts on the lyrics to this song?