Gareth James - Her Playground (Official Music Video)

This is a song crucified on the very axis of life, somehow
containing the dynamic tension we all face in relationships, the loop in which we either lose or win. Only here it’s both. We are drawn into the eternal braid in which loss is so painful that a war of
love rages between letting go and holding on.
The story is iconic: a poor boy falls in love with a rich girl whose shallow values undermine his true heart. He rages against the hurt, his accusations drive the layers of paradox in this song to their logical limit, true love surely has no words like this.
The tension is seemingly unarmed in the central lyric: “Something’s gotta give, I can’t go on like this” but we know it is impermeable when we arrive at the last chorus: “Lovin’ you should never be this wrong.”
But it is.
The real magic here emerges when you understand the evolution of the song: the paradox of rap and country is a mirror of the paradox of love and suffering. The hidden anomaly is our big reveal: Rapper Mother City Lumberjack, Chris (MCLJ) is an underground rapper who breaks daylight for the first time on . This rapper is a word wizard beyond articulation. And he’s white.
In one song we break the barriers of genre, of race and of love itself. This is the magical architecture on which is built.