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The song is about a broken relationship with the lyrics directed at the ex-girlfriend/wife, but doesn't deliver it as straight forward as most other songs do. He places a lot of emphasis on the tension between different perspectives, and the cycles most couples fall into whenever it comes to a break up.

"Yours is the only version of my desertion that I could ever subscribe to"

• The story that the ex tells to everyone, which lays the blame on the singer, has become so elaborate and changes so much that it's like receiving a new magazine about their relationship every month.

"That is all that I can do"

• The singer can't stop her from talking, or argue anything against her conviction.

"You are a past dinner, the last winner I'm raping all around me"

• The "past dinner" is a euphemism for an occasion for when the singer did something wrong. The "last winner" is the supposedly truthful and right ex being done wrong by the singer in every possible way ("raping all around me").

"Until the last drop is behind you"

• Her story and words about how faulted the singer and relationship is, is like venom that can't be exhausted. It's constantly flowing.

"You're so cute when you're frustrated, dear You're so cute when you're sedated, dear I missed you"

• This stanza is basically an biting comeback to her true nature. He gives a sarcastic remark about how she's always angry, followed by a not-so-sarcastic remark about how much more pleasant life would be if she would shut up. "I missed you" is basically a sarcastic equivalent of "shut up / way to prove me right / this relationship was destined to fail at the rate you're going at".

"Sleep tight, grim rite, we have two hundred couches where you can sleep tonight"

• The "grim rite" is when someone is told to sleep on the couch rather than in the bed, which is the biggest flag that something is wrong in a relationship.

"You are the only person who's completely certain there's nothing here to be into That is all that you can do"

• An explicit fault this time around that points out the ex's constant problem with everything, which is "all she can do" because it's in her nature.

"You are a past sinner, the last winner and everything we've come to Makes you you"

• After all the arguing and discussion of what went wrong in the relationship, it's boiled down to everything that makes her her: things that she can't change when she is blamed. It's more of a statement about how unwilling she is to change herself for the better, but is completely fine with telling the singer how he needs to change himself. Hypocrisy at its finest.

"But you cannot safely say while I will be away That you will not consider sadly how you helped me to stray"

• It takes two people to fail a relationship. She can make up all the stories in the world about how the singer was the enemy and the reason for everything to go wrong, but she can't drown out the voice in the back of her head telling her that she drove him away. She didn't do any more to fix the situation than she did to burn their friendship to the ground with her backtalk while the singer has moved on.

"You will not reach me I am resenting a position that is past resentment And now I can't consider and now there is this distance, so..."

• The singer is tired of hating her, and has figured it's not a fight worth fighting for. The break up has spiraled so far out of control that there's nothing left to save.

"Something to say Something to do Nothing to say When there's nothing to do"

• Arguing over a broken friendship/marriage gives everyone something to talk about, but when it has turned so for the worst that there's nothing left, there's nothing to talk about anymore. It's just done.

I've fallen in love with this song so much that I couldn't help dissect it. I'd say that it's the most true to how life works out sometimes.