Make War
Song Meaning

The lyrics suggest “Make War” is a narrator picking a fight with a partner who has betrayed him, then pushing her to show she cares enough to fight back. The strongest evidence is the chorus, “If you give a fuck enough, you’ll make war too,” which frames war as the only proof of caring he will accept.

The meaning

The lyrics suggest the song is about a relationship ending in resentment, where the narrator treats conflict as the last available form of intimacy. The hook, “Woman, I make war to you,” turns the language of love into combat, and the follow-up, “If you give a fuck enough, you’ll make war too,” makes the fight a test. If she cares, she will match his anger. Indifference is the real insult, which is why he asks, “is this routine to you?”

A reading as plain revenge is the obvious rival, since the first verse is full of spite: “Hate comes easy, but with you, I come hard,” and the “anniversary from the bottom of my credit card” line makes the relationship sound like a bill he is tired of paying. But the revenge reading cannot explain why he keeps asking her to respond. Someone who only wanted to hurt her would not need her to “make war too.” The anger is a demand for engagement, and the song hears as hurt dressed up as contempt.

The cause of the hurt is betrayal, specifically a modern, digital one. “Who was that inside you / That made me feel so cock strong?” suggests the narrator once felt confident with her and now cannot recognize the person he thought he knew. “I wish the truth could do (To you) / What your Snapchat put me through” points to something he saw on her phone as the moment the trust broke. The wish is that honesty would hurt her as much as discovering the lie hurt him.

The second verse shows him deciding to stop. “I’m so bored of digging your trenches / When all this time, it was for your affection” admits that the earlier fighting was a bid for her love, and that he now sees it was wasted. “Sometimes you gotta leave that god damn thing / Right where you lost it” is the lesson he draws: some things are not worth recovering. He extends the same dismissal to the scene crowd, saying he does not “dig up the living corpses of scene whore kids; / I just court them,” which casts the whole social world around her as hollow.

The bridge shows where he lands. “From your smile to your core, all I see is love gore” collapses the affection he felt into something bloody and ruined, and “get off the bed and out the door” is the actual ending of the relationship. So the war is not a plan to win her back. It is the way he leaves, loud and angry, still wanting her to prove she cared, and finally telling her to go.

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