Lyric discussion by VampedVixen 

Cover art for It's a War in There lyrics by Dar Williams

it seems HOPELESS, not helpless in that first line

This song is about someone who is helping the speaker to deal very painful emotional problems. The person helping is sacrificing so much, helping to fight the war raging in the speaker's head. However, the speaker is still hopeless to help herself and will never give the person helping a medal, but she'll let him hold her and she might even love him someday.

This is one of my favorite Dar songs. Really beautiful and incredibly touching.