Maybe Music?
"(Cut your losses and walk away). I don't know why you say hello, I say goodbye."
HIM: Yeah, well, uh...you can take the last train to Clarksville, but I won't meet you at the station!
R&R: Oh, come on. Don't give up now. Your almost there. Notice that your impatience has had a strange effect on him. We'd say you're in the wrong musical metaphor, and you'd better get back...
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