The first verse is describing the way you just made love with your lover and you're lying in her bed. You're contemplating about yourself and your life and she knows this. "And [you] have reasons to believe that [you're] not the only person [she] spend this time with". In other words, you know that she's cheating on you with other people in this bed you are lying on. But you love her so much you'll still stay. Chorus (1st time): She's telling you that she's weak, but that she won't let you down anyway; she's just lying through her teeth. And now you're watching her in her bed and she's smiling in her sleep. When you two first met, she told you how you both were the same, but "[you're] different". You can't bear to hurt her, but she can cheat on you without a second thought. She had promised you that the whole thing, the relationship, would "work out in the end". But she was "gravely mistaken". Chorus (second time): She can lie to you and not feel guilty about it. She still smiles in her sleep. It's not possible for a person to smile in his or her sleep unless they're at complete ease with their life. She has no qualms about lying to you. She's lying to you and you know that you deserve better. You kill her with steel and see her maroon blood, she gasps for air, but you know that you'll "see this through" and forget about her and her pale blue eyes. Now she's lying in her bed again, only this time it's a death bed, hence the eulogies that were read. But it's all fitting because she lied. Chorus (third time): Now she still smiles in her sleep, but it's her eternal sleep; she's dead. She's still smiling, but you're alone now. You know that you "deserve better than this".

Well, the first verse is about how you feel betrayed. You feel as though you were trusting God off and on and it's just too much to go through again. Hence the "never again". God is supposed to test you to see if you belong in Heaven or not and it went too far and you're saying "maybe when you find out that I'm dead you'll realize what you did to me". The second verse is about the way you won't ever let go of the way that God mistreated you. You want Him to save you from Hell (hence the "save me when you come into the fire") but you'd still "rather die than have to see [His] smile". The chorus is saying if you still survive after the suicide attempt, if God would still accept you. And if you can "make [yourself] believe, [you'd] give [Him] back what [He] took away". In other words, you'd give him back the life He ruined for you, by dying. And if you believe in Him, then it would go to Him. By killing yoursef, you are "smash[ing] apart what [He] created" which is you. And how can you ever "stop [Him] from crushing [your] soul, when it was [His] to begin with"? Or more specifically, God gave you a soul and you can't stop Him from scarring it forever because it's not rightfully yours.

The first verse is an act of self mutilation. You're cutting yourself, "sharpening the sense of pain outside". Well, if the pain on the outside is sharpened, the inside pain is becoming dulled. You're numbing yourself on the inside. The second verse is like a continuation of the first one and it's showing how you're "killing off eveything inside". Trying not to feel. And also, you're wondering where everything went wrong. You're "trying to make sense of everything [she] tried to hide from [you]". The chorus is the way you feel, "[Your] heart bleeds no more", because you're numb now. It's just stone. You're numbing yourself from the way "[her] stomach feels sick for someone else". You know that feeling you get when you love someone so much that it hurts? Well, she doesn't feel that way for you. It's for someone else. Even when you've "broken both [your] legs falling for [her]". After all this, you can't even walk alone and you're telling her to "drag [you] on the ground" like you're nothing because that's how you feel like. The second chorus is about how you're stomach feels so "sore from cutting up". You know that feeling when you see someone you're falling over for? You're getting tired of that feeling because it's unrequited. Even when you "ruined all [your] sanctity for [her]. The pain, no matter how numb you are, hurts. So you're asking her to "smash [you] on the ground" because you know that it'll make her happy. She's sadistic enough to make your hopes rise and just drop them right in front of you. Plus, you get to perish now after all the things you went through. You want to convince yourself that there's nothing else to do, but just die. You want to show her that she was the one that killed you, but you can't. You're too in love with her to ever hurt her like that. The "I wanted to pretend that I was you" is a little murky, but I think that it means that you saw something in the girl. Something that you wanted to become. But in the end, you're just you. So far I have been explaining all this in a male's point of view, but it's possible to be a female in love with a man. But, this song is universal and "You're the worst thing that ever happen to me" said by a female accents this fact. PS, the same for homosexual/lesbian people too, although you'd have to switch some of the words around from the above text.

I think that this is a religious song. The first verse: "I'm tired of being what you want me to be" is like you feel like that everything you want to do is considered a sin and you're tired of it. And compared to the other saints around you, you're "feeling so faithless" and "lost under the surface". You don't know how you would succeed in satisfying everyone when you're "put under the pressure of walking in [the Saint's] shoes". The second verse describes the way that you feel smothered when God's hand is closing around you, trying to mold you into the perfect person. It feels as though He's afraid to lose control. And everything that He had planned *for* you had "has fallen apart right in front of [Him]" .You're just not the right fit for His plans. Everything you try to do to fix what you had done is just "another mistake to [Him]" and you're wasting time trying to fix everything and it's just too much. You feel like you're "caught in the undertow" because you're just okay enough to not need to be saved, yet just lost enough to be hurting. After all these things you've been through you feel so numb, numb enough not feel God's grace anymore. You're so tired of living like this and you're aware that you have to change. You're becoming the sins you are commiting, but in the end all you want to do is differentiate between you and Him. You might fail now and you know this. And you know that all the saints around you were also failures too. Supporting my views: The numb video takes place in a church. They play in a church, but the girl is too late to find God in the end.

I believe that all songs can interpreted in different ways depending on the way you were raised, your past experiences and pain, and basically what kind of person you are. You can agree or disagree with me, but that does not make you right or wrong. If you really want to talk about it, I'll be happy to receive an IM from someone. Maybe we can become friends, eh? AIM Screen Name: DarkSunFromHell