Playing Possum

On this track, Maxwell is pleading for somebody to "wake up from your constant possum playing." The singer told The Idolator that in this context the term "playing possum" means a dead relationship. He explained: "After you've broken up with someone, you see the possibility of getting back together, but then the person is just laying there unable to. It was my way of making a plea about having been aware of it being over. [But] it's kind of two-fold thing. Sometimes, in my time away, it seemed that I was playing possum in terms of my work. It's symbolic for my career at the same time."