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Into living up to gender roles and having absent minds
"Living up to gender roles and having absent minds" means that we are put under pressure to portray gender co-ordinated stereotypes. Also, that we are brainwashed into believing that rigid gender boundaries are essential for living a normal life for example: girls must be seen as weak, prissy characters that need a strong man to protect them and boys can't wear pink and must act manly and aggressive.
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and relentlessly confine
"Relentlessly confine" means that we are trapped endlessly into performing as our gender stereotypes and there is no escape: we are imprisoned.
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Play us like Pawns
"Play us like pawns" is a way of saying society controls us easily as in chess, pawns have the least complicated set of rules therefore making them the easiest piece to use.
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I surrender who I've been for who you are
He regrets his decisions in the past regarding his true love but would be willing to completely change himself in order to achieve perfection in her eyes. Also, it means that she has done everything he would ever have wanted her to do and more for him but he feels as though he has failed her by not being a good enough lover.
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I've waited a hundred years,
But I'd wait a million more for you
It means that the writer of the song has been waiting all his life for the perfect girl to fall in love with, hence the "I've waited a hundred years" part. The next part "But I'd wait a million more for you" signifies his true, passionate love for a woman and he would wait for as long as it takes for her to realize her true feelings for him too. in conclusion, it just means that he has fallen in live with this lady and would wait forever for her to be his.
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