Misery

I think it's a tug-pull kind of love/hate relationship Adam is singing about, cause it seems that he gives and gives, but she takes and takes. So because of this he is always in misery. And also I think she keeps finding ways to point out what he is doing wrong and she won't just let him be. I'll break down some of the song lyrics to show what I mean...

"So scared of breaking it. But you won't let it bend."

• She is afraid that if it ends, she won't be stable enough, so she won't bend to his way of thinking that is 10x's easier than her fears are telling her to believe.

"And I wrote two hundred letters. I won't ever send."

• He wrote her so many emails/texts, but never got the nerve to send them to her telling how he really felt about things. He just can't get past something so he just saves it for a rainy day.

"Somehow it is cut so much. Deeper then they seem."

• She hurt him badly, so bad that the scar is still etched on his heart... but she did it from the back so he feels it very deeply when it happened.

"You'd rather cover up. I'd rather let them be. So let me be. And I'll set you free."

• She wants to forget everything that went wrong, including any girls from his past. He just wants to go with the flow, no matter what they are, but she won't go there with him, ever. So he just begs that if you let it be, you'll feel free of everything that drives you nuts about you and me.

"I am in misery. There ain't no other who can comfort me. Why won't you answer me? Your silence is slowly killing me."

• She makes him feel like hell, but at the same time it's comforting that she drives him crazy. Yet at the same time she is giving him either the silent treatment or ignoring him because he pissed her off. So he is going out of his mind trying to figure out why she won't say anything back.

"Girl you really got me bad. You really got me bad. I'm gonna get you back. Gonna get you back."

• She played a good head game on him, so now he is cleaver back to her and playing harder than her.

"Your salty skin and how it mixes in with mine, completely intertwined."

• He loves it when they get down and dirty together, so caught up that they are intertwined completely physically.

"It's not that I didn't care. It's that I didn't know. It's not what I didn't feel, It's what I didn't show."

• He is saying with reference to the prior line above, that it was so care free, the sex. Yet he started to feel something and just didn't want to show he was falling for her so quickly. He just held back because he didn't know what she wanted from him. He knew there was something, but she was detached from it all.

"Say your faith is shaken. You may be mistaken."

• She keeps thinking he is cheating/betraying her everytime she isn't around him. He keeps trying to tell her that he won't leave her or sleep with another, but her. She won't believe him.

"You keep me wide awake and waiting for the sun. I'm desperate and confused."

• She fills his head with thoughts that make him question her while he toss and turns in bed, till the break of dawn most nights. He also just feels so desperate when it comes to her, like he is the girl and she is the boy... she leaves him so confused.

"So far away from you. I'm getting here. Don't care where I have to go."

• He feels so distant from her physically and emotionally, that he is trying hard to get on her level, he'll get there, doesn't matter when or where, he wants to get there.