Inspiration Behind Love is a Battlefield:
Love is a Battlefield was inspired by the complexities of entering into a relationship when you are young. Pat describes love as a conflicting journey. Love is a Battlefield challenges traditional romantic beliefs about love. Pat refuses to paint a rosy picture about living happily ever after once falling in love. This song serves as a warning, detailing the struggles of two different people coming together as one. Love isn’t easy as emotional scars from your past can represent love as a battlefield for control, enter at your own risk.
Biblical Application:
Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? 8 If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live! – Hebrews 12:7-9
Exegesis of Love is a Battlefield:
(We are young, we are young)
We are young (heartache to heartache)
Heartache to heartache we stand (we stand)
(No promises) no promises, (no demands) no demands
(Love is a battlefield) love is a battlefield
This music video features a runaway teenager searching for love. Young people tend to struggle with heartache moving from one broken relationship to another. To avoid getting your heart broken over and over again, Pat provides advice on avoiding making demands and promises. If you don’t listen to her advice, you’ll discover that love is a battlefield.
We are strong
No one can tell us we’re wrong
Searchin’ our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield
Young people think they are indestructible. Unfortunately, the trial and error of searching your heart results in pain.
You’re beggin’ me to go, then makin’ me stay
Why do you hurt me so bad?
It would help me to know, do I stand in your way
Or am I the best thing you’ve had?
Love can make you emotional. Especially when the person you are with doesn’t know what they are looking for or want in a partner.
Believe me, believe me, I can’t tell you why
But I’m trapped by your love
And I’m chained to your side
Love can make you blinded in certain areas that you don’t realize that you are chained by their side.
We are young
Heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield
Pat is playing the role of a realist, trying to warn young girls what love truly involves.
We are strong
No one can tell us we’re wrong
Searchin’ our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield
You can be strong and stubborn, but if you are not careful, love can break you.
When I’m losing control, will you turn me away
Or touch me deep inside?
And when all this gets old, will it still feel the same?
There’s no way this will die
When you are young, love is a feeling that goes up and down daily. Once you become mature, love is a way of life. The key to love is developing a will to love someone so that love never dies.
But if we get much closer, I could lose control
And if your heart surrenders, you’ll need me to hold
Pat touches on intimacy and support.
We are young
Heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield
True love takes time and effort, enduring emotional scars from your past.
We are strong
No one can tell us we’re wrong
Searchin’ our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield
Love can be messy as a couple brings their emotional garbage into a new relationship. When these issues are swept under the preverbal rug, love does become a battlefield for survival.
Final Thoughts:
If Pat was a preacher, Love is a Battlefield would be the anti-Joel Osteen sermon. Instead of focusing on the positive, Pat doesn’t hold anything back. Love is complicated, painful and unexplainable at times. Love requires effort from two people or else arguments and battles for control will ensue. Finding a soul mate can be great, but it takes time, patience and persistence.
by Jay Mankus
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