Lost Cause

“Your sorry eyes cut through bone” [the sudden feeling of gravity right in the core of your soul when your eyes make contact even for a second with someone you love that has hurt you or has such an ability to effect you. Its their eyes, you cant define why you love them but it’s the eyes of someone that you resent and you feel like all your inhibitions have gone even for a second while you’re looking into them.]

“Make it hard to leave you alone” [you love them, you want to f***ing help, protect them, stop them hurting despite its their own guilt gnawing at them for what they did to you. You want to talk to them, whether it be loving content or hate. You just crave any words from their mouth or their touch or breath].

“Leave you here wearing your wounds” [They’re like a dog licking their own wounds. They’ve committed an animalistic crime in the relationship and they must live with it. And because it is in fact you that has really been the victim you know you have to leave for you’re own sanity. They’re a scab that you have to stop picking].

“Waving your guns at somebody new” [We all know the damage a gun can do, they’re imposing all the damage on others that was imposed on him. There is a thin line between love and hate; he seems to be jealous of the people having the guns waved at them].

“There’s too many people you used to know They see you coming, they see you go” [Two possibilities. A) Enemies made from people that where once friends or lovers but lost due to her behavior mentioned above or B) People disregarded as a result of a long-term relationship. The second line suggests a lack of commitment to them never the less].

‘They know your secrets and you know theirs’ [This initially made me think of intimate talk between two people that have a soft spot for each other, most likely not between the two main players here but between her and the other man/men. She has shared her deepest thoughts and secrets with other people. It is interesting this is mentioned over and above the sexual act itself.]

“This town is crazy, nobody cares” [He feels like another brick in the wall, everyone is going about their duties doing what they can do to survive or get a quick fix, even if it means sleeping with someone’s partner. This line simultaneously depicts the little empathy human beings sometimes have for others hurt].

“There's a place where you are going You ain't never been before No one laughing at your back now No one's standing at your door That's what you thought love was for” [Everyone has given up, they don’t even have time to pity her because of what she’s done. She is going to a very lonely place; she doesn’t have all the puppets she controlled knocking for her and her venom. I love how calmly he sings this whilst there is just so much resentment, a beautiful contradiction. The last line is seemingly referring to her warped perception of love, to get people on her side and obtain things; I deduce that she had been using people].

She’s a lost cause and he’s tired of fighting to help her at his own expense.