Most everybody seems to agree with Drowner, but I'm afraid that I have to disagree. I absolutely agree that the song is about a breakup and he still has feelings for her, but his desire to "break (her) away" is not altruistic or selfless; he wishes to break her away from his own heart to end his agony. In actuality, the song sees him alone later in the night after the breakup, and he is self-injuring. This is the "second time" that he bleeds that night; the first is emotionally when she breaks up with him. This is consistent with another point in the song when he wishes "if only this pain died, too." He is trying to kill his pain (many or most self-injurers do so because they feel that the physical pain removes, reduces, or heals emotional pain). Incidentally, when he sings this line, the "too" refers to the fact that one other thing has died that night, their relationship. With regards to Tophster's suggestion that the girl died, this is not supported by the fact that the thing that died previously died that same night and, more tellingly, that it's only her words that rip and tear, and not also her death.
In Christ,
~Me
Most everybody seems to agree with Drowner, but I'm afraid that I have to disagree. I absolutely agree that the song is about a breakup and he still has feelings for her, but his desire to "break (her) away" is not altruistic or selfless; he wishes to break her away from his own heart to end his agony. In actuality, the song sees him alone later in the night after the breakup, and he is self-injuring. This is the "second time" that he bleeds that night; the first is emotionally when she breaks up with him. This is consistent with another point in the song when he wishes "if only this pain died, too." He is trying to kill his pain (many or most self-injurers do so because they feel that the physical pain removes, reduces, or heals emotional pain). Incidentally, when he sings this line, the "too" refers to the fact that one other thing has died that night, their relationship. With regards to Tophster's suggestion that the girl died, this is not supported by the fact that the thing that died previously died that same night and, more tellingly, that it's only her words that rip and tear, and not also her death. In Christ, ~Me