The song itself is about a man that has lost the love of his life to the way he treated them when they were together. be it a metaphorical prison he has put himself in due to their breakup, or a literal jail cell that he has ended up in because of his regrettable actions toward them, he'll never get a chance to be with them ever again, because he blew his chances with them and has to live with it. It eventually takes trying to lose himself in narcotics like alcohol to truly realize that this person meant the world to him, as his pain can only fade when he cannot feel anything at all anyway.
To me, however, this song takes a similar, but ultimately more personal meaning. A woman I sadly never got a chance to be romantically involved with, yet was on the edge of that line for a number of times for a number of years, once told me her favorite color was Purple. I gave my heart to a person that did not want it, and that pain manifested in the tone of this song.
Like the singer states in the song, I never truly realized how strong my infatuation, my love, my desire for this woman was until I sat alone in my bar drinking myself till I could not feel anything physically or emotionally, pouring those feelings into the bottom of a bottle.
Instead of thinking to myself that I should have changed to better a relationship slowly turning sour, I kept reminding myself that if I had changed, maybe my feelings would have been reciprocated, as those who are denied their love typically think.
The song itself is about a man that has lost the love of his life to the way he treated them when they were together. be it a metaphorical prison he has put himself in due to their breakup, or a literal jail cell that he has ended up in because of his regrettable actions toward them, he'll never get a chance to be with them ever again, because he blew his chances with them and has to live with it. It eventually takes trying to lose himself in narcotics like alcohol to truly realize that this person meant the world to him, as his pain can only fade when he cannot feel anything at all anyway.
To me, however, this song takes a similar, but ultimately more personal meaning. A woman I sadly never got a chance to be romantically involved with, yet was on the edge of that line for a number of times for a number of years, once told me her favorite color was Purple. I gave my heart to a person that did not want it, and that pain manifested in the tone of this song. Like the singer states in the song, I never truly realized how strong my infatuation, my love, my desire for this woman was until I sat alone in my bar drinking myself till I could not feel anything physically or emotionally, pouring those feelings into the bottom of a bottle. Instead of thinking to myself that I should have changed to better a relationship slowly turning sour, I kept reminding myself that if I had changed, maybe my feelings would have been reciprocated, as those who are denied their love typically think.