It seems this song is a story between someone who destroyed another's life sexually, but who had no life before this anyway. As if, the narrator, a pimp, brought a prostitute into his life, and has treated her poorly, but, in the balance, has given her means of living. He knows what's on her mind, him, the terror. But he and she both know if he took it back, if he left her, she'd be back where she started, no where. In his cold arms she can't sleep, in his cold arms her fear beats, but in his cold arms, she stays.
It seems this song is a story between someone who destroyed another's life sexually, but who had no life before this anyway. As if, the narrator, a pimp, brought a prostitute into his life, and has treated her poorly, but, in the balance, has given her means of living. He knows what's on her mind, him, the terror. But he and she both know if he took it back, if he left her, she'd be back where she started, no where. In his cold arms she can't sleep, in his cold arms her fear beats, but in his cold arms, she stays.