Lyric discussion by Barunesusa 

Cover art for Swindler lyrics by Vanessa Carlton

I think this is about somebody who was in some sort of abusive relationship (the song implies with a guy, but I'm taking it as any sort of it). The person is absolutely sick and tired of it. She runs from the person who is abusing her. When the abuser comes crawling back to her, begging for forgiveness, she remembers all the wrongs he gave her, but she still can't completely hate him.

"You'll drop another line On someone else's time But in me you still resound"

This line represents on how the abuser is going onto another person, but the abused won't stand to see it done to another person. That, or when somebody does anything that remotely like the abuser, she gets paranoid and runs away.

This relates a lot to a problem I had with a supposed good friend of mine. I ended up in an abusive relationship, as I would apparently do something to upset her and she would drop me, then pick me up as a friend. I finally had enough of it and just left her. I can't really forgive her for what happened, but I can't completely hate her either.