Lyric discussion by Faith 

The illusions to fisting...extreme sexual activity in order to feel, the progression from a finger tip to knuckle to hand to shoulder...hoping to banish a numbness...requiring something shocking that you don't really want just to feel something...what does that say about a person? I think that's the point of the song.

What I think is interesting is that he seems to explore both POV here...the person being entered, the person who needs the pain to push past the numbness...and the person who needs to do the pushing, needs to force the envelope, in order to feel.

The dichotomy of sado masochism...but more, I think, in an emotional and psychological sense.

I definitely agree. and I think Maynard also laments that that form of sado masochistic relationship, on an emotional, psychological, and a physical level, has become something that has been accepted to maintain excitement in a relationship or for an individual. It is my belief that he sees modern relationships as something more carnal that require a form self-mutilation in some shape or form to keep the interest, to quell the boredom. Hence "there's something kind of sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety?" What happened to just being happy...

@Faith you make it sound like your talking about a species, like your analyzing its every move

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