To me this song is about a man so tainted (possibly Trent) that he feels unworthy of the love of the one he cares for because he knows she has potential to make someone happy, but in the end, he is too tainted to ever be made happy by her no matter how hard she tries. She means a lot to him, but she would be better off without him. This is unlike the song "The Fragile", in which Trent believes he can save possibly the same untainted girl from impurity by walling her up. In that song he mentions the world picking at the wall he used to keep her pure, and here it seems he's given up entirely and realizes that he might even taint her just by being around her.
The great below mentions a line from this song and I think this song is written in the same vein.
To me this song is about a man so tainted (possibly Trent) that he feels unworthy of the love of the one he cares for because he knows she has potential to make someone happy, but in the end, he is too tainted to ever be made happy by her no matter how hard she tries. She means a lot to him, but she would be better off without him. This is unlike the song "The Fragile", in which Trent believes he can save possibly the same untainted girl from impurity by walling her up. In that song he mentions the world picking at the wall he used to keep her pure, and here it seems he's given up entirely and realizes that he might even taint her just by being around her.
The great below mentions a line from this song and I think this song is written in the same vein.