Though I realized that (based on the lyrics) the song is about a relationship with a girl, for me it also resonates about friendships.
Some people take the lines ...
"I never felt alone
‘til I met you
I’m alright on my own
And then I met you"
... to mean the person themselves actually made them feel alone.
The lyrics refer to pre-relationship, and relationship itself, then Implies the post-relationship. I don't take it as saying the actual relationship make the person lonely but, having had it then loosing it. Basically they need them now, and possibly they need others as well, when before they didn't have anyone so they didn't know what they were missing. In a way contradicting the concept of "Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all"
The reason I take the song as referring to not just one relationship but general friendships as well, were from the lines ...
"I would change myself if I could
I would walk with my people if I could find ‘em"
... These are strong lyrics for someone who has few (if any) friendships and they are desperately frustrated because they can't find people like them, so instead they will change anything (including themselves) to fit in, and get back what relationships they had and ruined and lost. Wanting to apologize but worried that would just push them further away.
So relationships are a drug, they didn't need it before, but once they had it they needed it and without it ...
"Somethin’s gone
You withdraw
And I’m not strong like before"
Though I realized that (based on the lyrics) the song is about a relationship with a girl, for me it also resonates about friendships.
Some people take the lines ...
"I never felt alone ‘til I met you I’m alright on my own And then I met you"
... to mean the person themselves actually made them feel alone. The lyrics refer to pre-relationship, and relationship itself, then Implies the post-relationship. I don't take it as saying the actual relationship make the person lonely but, having had it then loosing it. Basically they need them now, and possibly they need others as well, when before they didn't have anyone so they didn't know what they were missing. In a way contradicting the concept of "Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all"
The reason I take the song as referring to not just one relationship but general friendships as well, were from the lines ...
"I would change myself if I could I would walk with my people if I could find ‘em"
... These are strong lyrics for someone who has few (if any) friendships and they are desperately frustrated because they can't find people like them, so instead they will change anything (including themselves) to fit in, and get back what relationships they had and ruined and lost. Wanting to apologize but worried that would just push them further away.
So relationships are a drug, they didn't need it before, but once they had it they needed it and without it ...
"Somethin’s gone You withdraw And I’m not strong like before"