According to their tumblr, the song takes inspiration from Jeanette Winterson’s “The Passion”, which deals with themes of gender and sexuality
Mistake me for something else
I wear such a handsome disguise
Tell me about the place between fear and sex
‘cause I want to go there, it’s the game I play best
Either way we were successes and failures
I wasn’t playing to win all the time
I’d recognize you from a mile away
I’ll hide back in waiting for moments when we are aligned
There’s beauty in thе double take
Therе’s beauty in the in-between
The beauty of you being not what I make
The beauty of us being risks and takes
Either way we were successes and failures
I wasn’t playing to win all the time
I’d recognize you from a mile away
I’ll hide back in waiting for moments when we are aligned
Either way we were successes and failures
I wasn’t playing to win all the time
I might be locked up and lonesome forever
If I’m gonna play, then I might just lose sometimes
Passion was written by Lauren Denitzio.