Good or bad, that is, that’s your deal.
Good or bad?
Yeah, obviously you can’t have all the trump cards to yourself and therefore you’ve got to deal with what you have the best you can.
Hence, the deal becomes, metaphorically speaking, the overall situation one finds oneself in, good or bad.
And hence therefore, you can understand “that’s the deal” as: that’s the situation, that’s the arrangement, that’s the bargain.
Or, using an even shorter American expression, that’s it.
Similar to the situation described above in the song of Kathy Mattea, an American country singer, is the experience of C.S. Lewis, the renowned British writer who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, among others. In Shadowlands, the movie, the aging (and previously very dull) Oxford Professor Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins), recounts his days with his young, passionate and spirited American wife, who died of cancer after three years of marriage, thus (or insofar as I can recall):
Why love
when losing hurts so much?
I don’t have the answers any more,
only my life’s experiences.
Twice, I have been given the choice,
first, as a boy,
then a man.
As a boy, I choose safety.
As a man, I choose suffering
because the pain is the happiness.
That’s the deal.
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