I don't necessarily see this as a song to someone who he doesn't love, but rather a song to someone he DOES love, but doesn't love him back, or doesn't want him. "To bear the weight" tells me that the weight of the relationship is all on his shoulders; he struggles to keep her despite her lack of interest in and love for him.
She's done something that makes his love difficult and give her the "upper hand" in the relationship. She's cold hearted, selfish, and a disgusting human being creating an uneccessary weight in his life. He "Could be the one (she) need(s) If (she)'d only show (him) how to live and to bear the weight" but it's easier to lie and tell himself that he's already that person, even though he knows he is most certainly not.
It's "easier to run, it's easier, To never have, To look (her) in the eye", but the truth is, in the end it's much easier to lie, holding onto a fragile relationship.
I don't necessarily see this as a song to someone who he doesn't love, but rather a song to someone he DOES love, but doesn't love him back, or doesn't want him. "To bear the weight" tells me that the weight of the relationship is all on his shoulders; he struggles to keep her despite her lack of interest in and love for him.
She's done something that makes his love difficult and give her the "upper hand" in the relationship. She's cold hearted, selfish, and a disgusting human being creating an uneccessary weight in his life. He "Could be the one (she) need(s) If (she)'d only show (him) how to live and to bear the weight" but it's easier to lie and tell himself that he's already that person, even though he knows he is most certainly not.
It's "easier to run, it's easier, To never have, To look (her) in the eye", but the truth is, in the end it's much easier to lie, holding onto a fragile relationship.