This song is so heart breaking it took me months to be able to listen to it on the album. I think it is about a relationship in which there the guy and girl start out just plain old in love. As the relationship progresses, he understands that she sees the relationship heading towards something more permanent. She wants something that he can't give her, but she doesn't see this.
Eventually, even while she is deeply in love with him, he knows he has to break it off. Allowing it to continue would only be unfair to her. He knows the problem is his inability to commit, but she thinks that there is something wrong with her. To her, there must be some reason for this, something she can do ("something to cure this"). If there is a reason behind it, then it is something she can fix, something she can change. She can make it work if she only knew what she had done wrong. He tells her "it's not your fault" because he doesn't want her to think that this is because of a problem with her. And he begs her to stop crying because he can't bear causing her this kind of pain.
This song is so heart breaking it took me months to be able to listen to it on the album. I think it is about a relationship in which there the guy and girl start out just plain old in love. As the relationship progresses, he understands that she sees the relationship heading towards something more permanent. She wants something that he can't give her, but she doesn't see this.
Eventually, even while she is deeply in love with him, he knows he has to break it off. Allowing it to continue would only be unfair to her. He knows the problem is his inability to commit, but she thinks that there is something wrong with her. To her, there must be some reason for this, something she can do ("something to cure this"). If there is a reason behind it, then it is something she can fix, something she can change. She can make it work if she only knew what she had done wrong. He tells her "it's not your fault" because he doesn't want her to think that this is because of a problem with her. And he begs her to stop crying because he can't bear causing her this kind of pain.