I think the meaning is pretty clear. This person got really burned in a previous relationship, and because of this is unable to love and show care in his present one, even though he so badly wants to. It's lovely song, and very sad. You can really feel how defeated and frustrated he is with himself.
Passage through time
Leave this place time to erase
My link to myself
Leads me astray
The whole world in my way
Out of my body, out of my mind
Out of luck and out of time
Sift through the remains
Enter this cage-disengage
Once it was easy
My best foot forward
As I trip through the same daily non-existing life I call hell
Bloodless, pale
Another empty shell
Captured mind details
As I loath myself
Can't you see, can't you tell
Safely assumed, I'm not well
Cradle me now, teach me how
Teach me how, cradle me now
Make life not your victim
Resume your identity but don't overload
Seek the riches
Hungry for change, I've got to explore
Hidden recesses, lost in my mind
Trapped forever doing time
Bloodless, pale
Another empty shell
Captured mind details
As I loath myself
Can't you see, can't you tell
Safely assumed, I'm not well
Cradle me now, teach me how
Teach me how, cradle me now
Bloodless, pale
Another empty shell
Captured mind details
As I loath myself
Can't you see, can't you tell
Safely assumed, I'm not well
Cradle me now, teach me how
Teach me how, cradle me now
Bloodless, pale
Another empty shell
Captured mind details
As I loath myself
Can't you see, can't you tell
Safely assumed, I'm not well
Cradle me now, teach me how
Teach me how, cradle me now
Leave this place time to erase
My link to myself
Leads me astray
The whole world in my way
Out of my body, out of my mind
Out of luck and out of time
Sift through the remains
Enter this cage-disengage
Once it was easy
My best foot forward
As I trip through the same daily non-existing life I call hell
Bloodless, pale
Another empty shell
Captured mind details
As I loath myself
Can't you see, can't you tell
Safely assumed, I'm not well
Cradle me now, teach me how
Teach me how, cradle me now
Make life not your victim
Resume your identity but don't overload
Seek the riches
Hungry for change, I've got to explore
Hidden recesses, lost in my mind
Trapped forever doing time
Bloodless, pale
Another empty shell
Captured mind details
As I loath myself
Can't you see, can't you tell
Safely assumed, I'm not well
Cradle me now, teach me how
Teach me how, cradle me now
Bloodless, pale
Another empty shell
Captured mind details
As I loath myself
Can't you see, can't you tell
Safely assumed, I'm not well
Cradle me now, teach me how
Teach me how, cradle me now
Bloodless, pale
Another empty shell
Captured mind details
As I loath myself
Can't you see, can't you tell
Safely assumed, I'm not well
Cradle me now, teach me how
Teach me how, cradle me now
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