Follow

This was the first Breaking Benjamin song I head, and it from the very beginning it has been a very personal song to me. But I still can't figure out what it means. I think the chorus is the key to understanding it.

I've always had the idea it is about two people, not necessarily lovers, who are standing on the brink of such a great relationship but they are holding each other back. Perhaps from fear, or ignorance of what they could do for each other. There is a massive potential that they see in one another, but at the same time they don't know how to reach for it.

"I follow you, you follow me... I'll break right through the irony..."

The irony of the relationship is that when two people in a relationship have the desire to LEAD the other, they get nowhere because they are constantly following one another back and forth...back and forth without direction or purpose. If they both agreed to WALK in the same direction, together, as one, they could achieve so much. That is the irony of their relationship.