I think for me this song represents the side of the other woman in an affair that went bad.
"Guess I should have been More like her" is in reference to the wife in this song. She believes if she had those qualities the wife has that he would have stayed.
"You took a chance on a bruised and beaten heart, and then you realized you wanted what you had"
I think the man in this song played both sides of the fence. The other woman knowing about the wife, while the wife was unaware. When the guy gets caught he chose the woman he had been with all along.
"I should have held on to my pride, I should have never let you lie" I think here she's saying that she should have believed in her intuition that he was lying about how his marriage really was and she let him fill her head with lies about a future together.
" forgiving you, she's stronger than I am." And "It's plain to see, desperation showed it's truth, you love her, she loves you with all she has" when it came down to the affair and all the lies, she learns it was never a question of him leaving his wife because that was never his intention and the wife forgives him for the affair but the other woman can not get past what he's done to her.
That's how I see this song. As a scorned lover who realizes the guy she thought was going to choose her in the end is really a douche bag who never deserved her in the first place!!!
I think for me this song represents the side of the other woman in an affair that went bad. "Guess I should have been More like her" is in reference to the wife in this song. She believes if she had those qualities the wife has that he would have stayed. "You took a chance on a bruised and beaten heart, and then you realized you wanted what you had" I think the man in this song played both sides of the fence. The other woman knowing about the wife, while the wife was unaware. When the guy gets caught he chose the woman he had been with all along. "I should have held on to my pride, I should have never let you lie" I think here she's saying that she should have believed in her intuition that he was lying about how his marriage really was and she let him fill her head with lies about a future together. " forgiving you, she's stronger than I am." And "It's plain to see, desperation showed it's truth, you love her, she loves you with all she has" when it came down to the affair and all the lies, she learns it was never a question of him leaving his wife because that was never his intention and the wife forgives him for the affair but the other woman can not get past what he's done to her.
That's how I see this song. As a scorned lover who realizes the guy she thought was going to choose her in the end is really a douche bag who never deserved her in the first place!!!