He's in love with a messed up girl. She hardly displays any emotions/ lacks of empathy (You're cold), doesn't really want a relationship with anyone (You said I should have never of stayed) and I guess she also has some mental illness like depression, since he can see her ghost (the ghost is her death self, i.e. some parts of her feel dead.) in her eyes, her eyes therefore look dead/hopeless/tired. Also, and that's the main point of the whole song, she messes up the singers' life. Every time he stares into her eyes, therefore every time he sees inside her who she really is, he loses control over his life. I also think that he stares into her eyes to let her know he's interested in her, and she's scared of relationships and therefore every time he tries to get closer to her he actually scares her and therefore is left lost and disappointed.
Even though she seems to lack of emotions, I think that she is in love with him but sees how she messes up his life and is therefore aware of the fact that he's better of without her.
'It's not hard to be left behind. So I'll run'
Instead of quitting 'looking into her eyes' to stop being left behind, the singer wants to run ahead so that once he'll be left behind he will be exactly where he needs to be. The singer has pretty strong feelings for this girl and is willing to organise his life in a way that allows him to lose control over it regularly without messing it up too much, just to be allowed to spend time with her. She on the other hand 'hides' from him, because she sees that it's better for him to be without her.
The song ends with him holding on to his belief that she's the best thing that could possibly happen to him, while she still insists that he'd be way better off if he'd stop sticking to her (You said I should have never of stayed. But there's no better place for me)
He's in love with a messed up girl. She hardly displays any emotions/ lacks of empathy (You're cold), doesn't really want a relationship with anyone (You said I should have never of stayed) and I guess she also has some mental illness like depression, since he can see her ghost (the ghost is her death self, i.e. some parts of her feel dead.) in her eyes, her eyes therefore look dead/hopeless/tired. Also, and that's the main point of the whole song, she messes up the singers' life. Every time he stares into her eyes, therefore every time he sees inside her who she really is, he loses control over his life. I also think that he stares into her eyes to let her know he's interested in her, and she's scared of relationships and therefore every time he tries to get closer to her he actually scares her and therefore is left lost and disappointed. Even though she seems to lack of emotions, I think that she is in love with him but sees how she messes up his life and is therefore aware of the fact that he's better of without her. 'It's not hard to be left behind. So I'll run' Instead of quitting 'looking into her eyes' to stop being left behind, the singer wants to run ahead so that once he'll be left behind he will be exactly where he needs to be. The singer has pretty strong feelings for this girl and is willing to organise his life in a way that allows him to lose control over it regularly without messing it up too much, just to be allowed to spend time with her. She on the other hand 'hides' from him, because she sees that it's better for him to be without her. The song ends with him holding on to his belief that she's the best thing that could possibly happen to him, while she still insists that he'd be way better off if he'd stop sticking to her (You said I should have never of stayed. But there's no better place for me)