Lyric discussion by heyilikethissong 

This song, according to the band's frontman Johnny Rzeznik, is about a woman with a heroin addiction and how her lover is desperately trying to save her. He has also said that it is about "seeing someone you love that is so great just screw up so bad."

some people think it is about a drug addict giving birth.(That was your womb) the baby lives but she die (And I go on as you get colder)

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