I guess any song could be about love/relationships and I always assumed this one was too.
Twice in my life I have been in relationships where both parties probably knew they weren't going to work long-term. And yet for whatever reason (familiarity, ease, not wanting to start dating someone else) we stuck together - maybe longer than we should have.
In both cases I guess you could say I "stepped up" and said it's time to part ways and in both cases the reaction from the other person was negative. They got upset, angry, etc. As I looked back on these I always thought I had to be the bad guy in order for progress to be made.
Consider these lines:
Who cast the final stone?
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to take the fall
It sounds like somebody had to "take the fall" (i.e. be blamed/chastised for ending the relationship) and so this guy says it might as well be me. I mean consider that this martyr doesn't really seem like a helpless victim - he is taking responsibility for casting the final stone/throwing the crushing blow, right?
I could even take it a step further and say there were times in the relationships the other person wanted me to just go with what they said - to be the weaker party:
A punch toy volunteer
A weakling on its knee
Is all you want to hear
And all you want to see
By stepping up and being the "stronger" one that ends the relationship that was out of character for the weaker person and also caused the turmoil this song alludes to.
I guess any song could be about love/relationships and I always assumed this one was too.
Twice in my life I have been in relationships where both parties probably knew they weren't going to work long-term. And yet for whatever reason (familiarity, ease, not wanting to start dating someone else) we stuck together - maybe longer than we should have.
In both cases I guess you could say I "stepped up" and said it's time to part ways and in both cases the reaction from the other person was negative. They got upset, angry, etc. As I looked back on these I always thought I had to be the bad guy in order for progress to be made.
Consider these lines: Who cast the final stone? Who threw the crushing blow? Someone has to take the fall
It sounds like somebody had to "take the fall" (i.e. be blamed/chastised for ending the relationship) and so this guy says it might as well be me. I mean consider that this martyr doesn't really seem like a helpless victim - he is taking responsibility for casting the final stone/throwing the crushing blow, right?
I could even take it a step further and say there were times in the relationships the other person wanted me to just go with what they said - to be the weaker party:
A punch toy volunteer A weakling on its knee Is all you want to hear And all you want to see
By stepping up and being the "stronger" one that ends the relationship that was out of character for the weaker person and also caused the turmoil this song alludes to.
Maybe I'm way off, but this makes sense to me.