What do you think The Trick means?

AJR - The Trick Meaning

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The Trick Lyrics

I've got a dog and my dog can dance
Just not in public and not with my friends
I've got a girl and she's twenty-eight
Now, I'm the coolest guy in all of eighth grade
I know a kid that you've never met
His dad was a rockstar, we smoked in his...

  1. anonymous
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    Aug 6th 2024 !⃝

    I believe The Trick is about being a compulsive liar. As said, "The truth is that I'm screwed." This is said to tell the listener that they haven't told the truth for so long and it's good to have it out. At the start, they say lies, and then at the end. they he realizes what lying does to you. This is why he says that he's screwed.

  2. anonymous
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    Nov 22nd 2021 !⃝

    The Trick is about how he says that he is never the same person, and that being someone else will make you fit in, but it is very hard to escape who you pretend to be

  3. anonymous
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    Nov 22nd 2021 !⃝

    I think it's about how no one is ever the same person, and that we can be anyone we want, but it's hard to keep up with all of them


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