This can apply to either guy or gal, but I'll just use "he/his" here.
To me it's a song about a person who eventually realizes how one sided a relationship he had was, as someone who gave too much love or maybe tried to make things work and yet gained nothing in return. That everything he held dear about his "significant other" was a long held fabrication. He was a "nobody" to this other person the entire time. He realizes it now.
So he retaliates with a 'sleeping vengeance' stemming from a broken and angry heart. It's as if these lyrics are expressing "if she can do whatever she wants, then I'll do whatever I want" kind of thing.
Yet the irony is that he says its "ruthless" for missing this person. Makes you wonder what being a brute really means. Ruthless for loving, or ruthless for hating? Quite poetic. Beautiful song.
This can apply to either guy or gal, but I'll just use "he/his" here.
To me it's a song about a person who eventually realizes how one sided a relationship he had was, as someone who gave too much love or maybe tried to make things work and yet gained nothing in return. That everything he held dear about his "significant other" was a long held fabrication. He was a "nobody" to this other person the entire time. He realizes it now.
So he retaliates with a 'sleeping vengeance' stemming from a broken and angry heart. It's as if these lyrics are expressing "if she can do whatever she wants, then I'll do whatever I want" kind of thing.
Yet the irony is that he says its "ruthless" for missing this person. Makes you wonder what being a brute really means. Ruthless for loving, or ruthless for hating? Quite poetic. Beautiful song.