at the shows when meg plays this, she tells the audience the story
when meg was younger, she was playing hide and go seek with her five year old cousin ("i turned my back to count"). and when she started counting she heard her cousin fall in the water but she couldn't do anything because she didn't know how to swim either.
and she blamed her self ever since
("ian still won't even talk to me") i'm guessing that Ian is the little girl's older brother and blamed meg for his sister's death.
Ian is also the one who wrote this song with meg
at the shows when meg plays this, she tells the audience the story when meg was younger, she was playing hide and go seek with her five year old cousin ("i turned my back to count"). and when she started counting she heard her cousin fall in the water but she couldn't do anything because she didn't know how to swim either. and she blamed her self ever since ("ian still won't even talk to me") i'm guessing that Ian is the little girl's older brother and blamed meg for his sister's death. Ian is also the one who wrote this song with meg