Lyric discussion by ian74 

Cover art for Half a Heart lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

I think this song touches on assisted suicide; "anyone with half a heart would pull me down". The "help me out" line is referring to helping him kill himself after some bad publicity. It also kind of says that all suicide is assisted suicide, because everyone helps by not telling anyone about it. There are a lot of bnl songs that sound like suicide even though they aren't, (When I Fall, etc.) but I think this one is.