Arcade

Duncan Laurence

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

A broken heart is all that’s left

I’m still fixing all the cracks

Lost a couple of pieces when

I carried it, carried it, carried it home

I’m afraid of all I am

My mind feels like a foreign land

Silence ringing inside my head

Please, carry me, carry me, carry me home

I’ve spent all of the love I saved

We were always a losing game

Small-town boy in a big arcade

I got addicted to a losing game

Ooh, ooh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

How many pennies in the slot?

Giving us up didn’t take a lot

I saw the end ‘fore it begun

Still I carried, I carried, I carry on

Ooh, ooh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

Ooh, ooh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

I don’t need your games, game over

Get me off this roller-coaster

Ooh, ooh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

Ooh, ooh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Background

This track from Dutch singer-songwriter Duncan Laurence won him the Eurovision singing contest back in 2019. It sings about a painful heartbreak, which many people can relate to. This enchanting ballad experienced a resurgence in popularity due to TikTok. In October 2020, the song went viral after being used in a “Dracotok” meme, which used the song with a deleted scene from 2011’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.” The scene shows Draco Malfoy tossing Harry Potter his wand so he can defeat Lord Voldemort once and for all.