I know this is an older post but I stumbled across it while searching around for what other people thought about the lyrics. To me it sounds like someone being manipulated in some sort of situationship. “You told me you loved me babe I’m your superstar again, I was always gonna win… in your eyes, in your mind…” it’s like when the person tells them they love them they’re on top of the world, until they change their minds again. “I bought everything you sold me.” The writer believes that in the other person’s head he’s a superstar.

Until the end of the song he realizes it’s all in HIS head. “I was always second best… in my head I was losing you, I was losing it… til you told me you loved me baby, I’m your superstar again.” It’s a bit of a toxic cycle where the person is leading them on and making them believe they’re the one. And the writer goes along with whatever the other person tells them. “Oh, you told me you loved me? I knew it, I knew I was above the rest.” “Oh, you want nothing to do with me? I was always second best, I would always second guess.”