High Infidelity
Mash-ups & Live Pairings
- Fresh Out the Slammer / High Infidelity (Eras Tour, Lisbon)
The title announces the theme directly, a song about confronting a partner's infidelity and the impossible question of whether to stay.
“Dragged my feet right down the aisle”
Feet dragged toward the altar make reluctance physical, the body holding back from a vow the speaker's heart has already left. The unwilling walk tells the truth the wedding is meant to hide.
“Lock broken, slur spoken, wound open, game token”
A broken lock opens the run of things going wrong, a boundary forced in a relationship coming apart.
“Rain soaking, blind hoping, you said I was freeloading”
Rain saturates a scene of suspicion and dread. The soaking weather opens the song's account of a relationship turning, the rain setting the chilled, exposed mood of a love under suspicion.