Lyric discussion by Maddowdle 

I think this is about a guy who dosen't return the affections of a girl who is just crazy for him. I mean he dosen't hate her, he just dosen't want to get in a relationship with her, and he almost feels bad for not returning her devotion. THey were probably best friends, which makes it worse.

If it makes you less sad, I will die by your hand.

He dosen't want the girl to be sad over his desicion to not return her feelings, so in order to make up for his denial he says that she can kill him. Of course he dosen't mean it he is just trying to comfort her because he does care for her.

I hope you find out what you want. I already know what I am.

He wishes her well and wants her to discover who she is and to find her purpose in life. He states that he already knows what he is. That is probably one of the reasons that he won't date her, because she is unsure of herself. SHe has not overcome the selfish need of acceptance.

And if it makes you less sad, we'll start talking again. and you can tell me how vile I already know that I am.

They obvioulsly stopped speaking after he rejected her, probably because it was really akward. Again her tries to make her less sad by talking to her and letting her take out all the hate emotions that she feels for him on her. But he states that he already knows that he is vile which makes me suspect that she has done this before, which may be the reason they were not talking in the first place.

I'll grow old and start acting my age. I'll be a brand new day in a life that you hate.

He will live his life and mature while she will hold on to the bitterness of rejection and wind up hating life and the fact that she was rejected. It makes me believe that they see each other alot to, not on purpose though (best friends before?)

A crown of gold. A heart thats harder than stone. And it hurts a whole lot, but it's missed when it's gone.

a broken heart is not easy to mend and since she can't have what she wants her love becomes calloused and pretty soon she feels no love and she wishes she could.

Call me a safe bet. I'm beting I'm not. I'm glad that you can forgive. I'm only hoping as time goes, you can forget.

I think that this means that the girl new she could win the guy, a "safe bet." But she didn't, "I'm betting Im not" Now even thought the girl has forgiven the guy he wants her to forget to.

If it makes you less sad, I'll move out of state. YOu can keep to yourself. I'll keep out of your way.

Now in order to help the girl to forget he says that he will move out of state, so that she can be alone and overcome her selfishness. He will keep out of her way so that he won't make things worse.

And if it makes you less sad, I'll take your pictures all down. Every picture you paint, I will paint myself out.

SInce they were best friends before love came up they probably had a lot of memories and he is saying that he will take all those memories and forget them and he won't make any new memories, he is not doing this to be mean, but again he is trying to help her to get over the heart ache by erasing the "past" and destroying the "future"

It's cold as a tomb, and it's dark in your room, when I sneak to your bed to pour salt in your wounds.

I think this is talking about her personality, cold and dark. He is saying that she only sees him as being mean and "pouring salt in her wounds," when really this whole time he has been trying to help her to get over her pain.

So call it quits or get a grip. Say you wanted a solution. You just wanted to be missed.

Now he finally reveals to her that he wants her to get a grip and come back to reality. Her life is not over and the whole time she was just thinking of herself. She just wanted to be missed. TO be noticed. She just wanted him to solve all her problems.

You are calm and reposed. Let your beauty unfold. Pale white, like the skin stretched over your bones. Spring keeps you ever close.

Here he is telling her all of her beauty to help her realize that life will continue. He tells her that she should let her beauty unfold and be her true self. To not look to others for acceptance. SHe is always scared of not being accepted (pale white).

You are second hand smoke. You are so fragile and thin. Standing trial for your sins. Holding onto yourself the best you can.

Now he is telling her her weaknesses. SHe is bad fr him(second hand smoke) Fragile and thin, she dosen't know who she is and what she wants from life, her purpose could be easily broken. standing trial for your sins...she is being judged for what she has done and is holding on to who she thinks she is desperatly.

You are the smell before rain. You are the blood in my veins.

blood in my veins makes me think that they were very close friends before she told him that she loved him.

Well that is my view on the song, sorry if it is jumbled or dosen't make much sense, it is hard to put in words this kind of stuff.

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