The object of desire is a man, but not the same man as in Headshots and Caramel.
It’s the match that you strike. The metaphor is a field and if you throw a match into it casually, then everything goes up in flames. But it’s also casual match as in a match that’s sort of about a fling that doesn’t t...
[Verse 1]
I only turned to see
What hand had set this inner field alight
Against the flame I see
The outline of a man against the night
[Verse 2]
Take back your sympathy
I do not need to drink that bitter stuff
I'd rather break the thread
That bound us close, and say we called a bluff
[Chorus]
Casual match in a very dry field
What could be the season's yield?
Casual match in a very dry field
What could be the season's yield?
[Verse 3]
My eyes have gone to coal
It's nothing I would be concerned about
Observe the moment
When the heat of love becomes the chill of doubt
[Chorus]
Casual match in a very dry field
What could be the season's yield?
Casual match in a very dry field
What could be the season's yield?
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Casual match in a very dry field
Fire and ash is the season's yield
We look for the sign but it is not revealed
Fire and ash is the season's yield
Casual Match was written by Suzanne Vega & Mitchell Froom.
Casual Match was produced by Mitchell Froom.