If I Can't Keep You, Nobody Can.

Today I was jamming to Lights' Little Machines album and I came across the lyrics

"If I can't keep you, nobody can" 

When I first heard this lyric I thought "Lights, bruh, you crazy" and I mean it's a pretty creepy line. However, I discovered a different meaning to it today. 

Here is my thought process on it. It's fairly simple. 

"If I can't keep you, nobody can" does not necessarily mean that the "you" being referred to is going to murdered or whatever horror movie scene came to your mind.

How I saw it was that the person saying this phrase worked, compromised, and sacrificed all for the other. Meaning, they literally did everything they could to keep the other satisfied, happy, and healthy. Essentially, the person saying the phrase is carrying everything on their back. 

When the other person decides to leave, they realize that no one will ever be able to keep that person. That person will just move on to the next one, and the next and the next.

So, that's what I feel is the other meaning behind that phrase.

Shay