I think this song is about the same man 'Funnyman' is about. He's a friend of hers who is schizophrenic, and 'changes every day'. KT has to 'twist herself into shapes' (put forth great effort) to stop his crying (psychotic breakdowns) and has to lose feeling to understand and put herself in his paranoid, scary place of voices and demons. (breaking my heart to take a walk into your jungle) The difficulty of his being this way follows her everywhere to the point where she's nearly on the brink of insanity, and can't tell him the truth because it would be too painful.
I think this song is about the same man 'Funnyman' is about. He's a friend of hers who is schizophrenic, and 'changes every day'. KT has to 'twist herself into shapes' (put forth great effort) to stop his crying (psychotic breakdowns) and has to lose feeling to understand and put herself in his paranoid, scary place of voices and demons. (breaking my heart to take a walk into your jungle) The difficulty of his being this way follows her everywhere to the point where she's nearly on the brink of insanity, and can't tell him the truth because it would be too painful.