Left your t-shirt in my room
Still smells of you
And the picture you hung on the door
Lay smashed, picture perfect
Explains now
Clearly nothing left but a memory
We only made out
You never kissed me
That's how I learned to hold back all feeling

Wait, please don't go
I won't stay
All these words on replay
I'm okay
It's all right
Good to know that you're fine

Pretending everything is right to make it better
I'll hide my make-up smeared eyes
To show that I'm fine

Some how you have managed to get under my skin
More than anyone ever did
And if every hole makes a scar
And every scar marks its place
Then I will never live freely without your trace
And it'll never be fair
I wrote my songs for you and you never even cared
So I'll forget you
I'll wash your t-shirt and kill the pillow
And cut you out of pictures

Wait, please don't go
I won't stay
All these words on replay
I'm okay
It's all right
Good to know that you're fine

Pretending everything is right to make it better
I'll hide my make-up smeared eyes

This drama sat shotgun
My eyes rained like autumn
Only the glove box knows how the story goes
Now that this bandage is broken
And the cuts left in open
I'll tell you just one thing
This wasn't worth the sting (x3)



Lyrics submitted by thoseguiltyeyes

Track duration: 04:41


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    General Comment:So, you're probably going to think I'm off my rocker here, but hear me out. I think the song's about cutting.

    "Nothing left but a memory. We only made out. You never kissed me." Cutters are typically victims of sexual abuse and therefore prone to promiscuity. They tend to get extremely attached to sexual partners, even when those partners don't return their feelings and/or treat them horribly. Cutters usually "relapse" after a loss, like the death of a loved one, or most of the time, a break-up.

    "Pretending everything is right to make it better. I'll hide my make-up smeared eyes to show that I'm fine." Extreme sufferer-in-silence behavior is often what leads someone to experiment with cutting.

    "This drama sat shotgun. My eyes rained like autumn. Only the glove box knows how the story goes." Cutting is a very difficult addiction to live with, especially if you don't live alone. Cutters have a specific place they cut, and believe it or not, most of them choose their car. It's mobile. You can get in and drive to a private, hidden location in minutes. And there are lots of compartments where one can hide a blade. Namely the glove box.

    "Now that this bandage is broken and the cut's left in open, I'll tell you just one thing. This wasn't worth the sting." Like other addicts, cutters state that their vice makes them feel better for a short time, but is almost immediately followed by feelings of emptiness and shame.

    Alright, there's my spiel. It's okay if you think I'm off.
    Flag aurorarayeon September 14, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:Like pretty much everyone on here, i think this song is about a break-up between a girl who put so much more into the relationship than the guy did.
    The line
    This drama sat shotgun
    My eyes rained like autumn
    Only the glove-box knows how the story goes
    Means that ever since she has been living with the results of this break-up, its follows her around all the time (sitting shotgun) and so she can't help but cry over it all the time (eyes rained). The glove-box thing i think is about the fact that when a girl (especially me) has a bad break-up like, i listen to sad music about much of the same because they seem to know how i feel, and especially in a car, cds are kept in the glove-box. So in essence, the glove-box (cds) is the only one that really knows how she feels about everything.

    Flag eternallybound92on May 23, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I'll tell you just one thing:
    This wasn't worth the sting.
    Flag lozozaon May 26, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:this is how i feel right now. :(
    i definitely think it is getting over a relationship, how many people that you don't have a relationship with leaves there clothes at your house, gives you pictures and have a pillow from.

    it seems like they broke up, and the guy just moved on, but the girl definitely still has feelings, but she knows those feelings are pointless because the guy doesn't care.
    and breaking up has showed her what kind of guy he was really was, but she still wants him regardless.
    she sees that he never really cared at all.
    so she'll put on a brave face and act like everything's alright.
    Flag audge22on February 28, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I tend to agree with the people who said that she's trying to get over a relationship. It seems like it had to have been a relationship because he gave her his shirt and she seems way to in love for it to have just been a causal fling. I think that he broke up with her and shes doing her best to hold it together and try to show everyone (including him) that she is okay. The part where she talks about how they made out but never kissed, I feel like that's her trying to convince herself that he never cared. Because thinking that he didn't care will somehow make it easier for her to move on.
    Flag punkrockprincess258on February 12, 2010   Link
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    My Interpretation:maybe is about the break up with her boyfriend. hahah obviously, but he never even cared the relationship... i guess
    Flag gabbicobainon November 25, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think the song is about a girl who falls in love with a boy who doesn't love or care about her and just wants to use her, ultimatly breaking her heart. This then causes her to pretend everything is fine even though she cries when no one is looking.
    Flag reveriexxon September 10, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:i think its about a girl who really falls for a guy but he has no feelings for her. hes just using her but she feels strongly for him...the way i feel for the guy im gettin used by. i shouldnt have gotten attached. i knew i wasnt supposed to get attached but somehow he got to me...he got under my skin lol...and now i see him with his girl and im stuck in my relationship. but what i want more than anything is to be with him. just him. its so hard to hide those feelings when im around him. just a bunch of drama.
    Flag henevercaredon September 10, 2009   Link
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    My Opinion:i love this song, and i cant relate to it... ♥
    i think it's about something that is not a real relationship, but she falls for the guy, but their relationship never got anywhere. and then it ended and although he didn't share the same feelings, she's secretly heartbroken and tries to hide it in front of him to show him that she doesn't care, but she still does?
    idk, but i think this song has a somewhat different meaning to everyone. all songs do.
    Flag midnight1angelon July 31, 2009   Link
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    My Interpretation:okay, i think the song is about one of those relationships where you just screw around fro fun. it isn't really adating relationship. i think its about how she really fell hard for him and he didn't even care. he only wanted to screw around with her, and didn't really want a relationship. i think everyone goes through something similar to this at one point in their life.
    Flag dancedesireeon June 26, 2009   Link

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