I'll Try Anything

The speaker is intensely attracted to someone who already belongs to another person. At first, she recognizes that the relationship is unavailable, but desire overpowers her sense of right and wrong. As the song continues, her determination grows: she is willing to compete for this person, even if she loses or behaves dishonestly. The repeated promise to keep trying gives the song a forceful, almost defiant emotional tone.

Several phrases show how far the speaker is prepared to go. “Throwing away” her conscience and pride means ignoring her own moral standards and self-respect. “I’ve been burned” is an idiom meaning that she has been hurt or disappointed before. “Mind my P’s and Q’s” means to behave carefully and politely; here, she says she will stop worrying about proper conduct. These expressions make her pursuit sound reckless as well as passionate.

The lyrics can be heard as a dramatic expression of overwhelming desire, not necessarily as a sensible plan or a reliable description of love. The speaker presents winning the person as her goal, but offers little evidence that the other person wants this relationship. Her confidence may be playful or exaggerated, yet the admission that she will cheat and lie also makes the pursuit troubling. The song leaves that tension unresolved.