Then he cuts himself off after brief communion—he gets one brief moment of love and connection, but knows that any more love and connection, though it might soothe him, will hurt her. So he puts her away and never, ever plays her again. In this reading, future inattention (I'll never, ever play you again means, for a record, that it sits useless and mute on a shelf) is not a statement on/indictment of the woman's newfound, Manson-inflicted undesirability, it is instead a statement of reverence and protection—"Even though in you I might find some moments of pleasure and comfort, I promise never to connect with you again, because I know more damage would destroy you."