anonymous January 26th, 2010 02:37PM  
My Personal interpretation is hes with someone he doesn't love but they have so much history together and shes been there for him that he cant leave her even if he was unhappy. He wants her to understand that he isnt happy but hes still trying. That hes loosing himself and his spirit is about to break but he needs to stay there He needs to be that chapter in her life for her sake. And because he doesnt love her his actions are coming through in his actions even tho he doesnt mean to hurt her. Hence the "burning of the pages" And even to hes straying hes still looking for whatever he can to hold him to her.

anonymous February 24th, 2010 05:19PM  
This is what I think it means from the lyrics and the video is basically showing how their relationship is in his head it was perfect till he found the diary and started noticing that there was never a relationship in her eyes so his vision of what they had is dying.


If I had to I would put myself right beside you So let me ask Would you like that? Would you like that? And I don't mind If you say this love is the last time So now I'll ask Do you like that?
Do you like that? No!

He is trying to say that if had to do what she is doing to him he would and he would ask her if she likes that to feel what he feeling and he would tell her that he don’t care if she says its over cause he’s trying to pay her back and he’s is trying to get some kind of reaction like making her cry cause in his eyes that would mean she cares for him some what. And he knows she wouldn’t like it if he did to her what she is doing to him.


Something's getting in the way.
Something's just about to break.
I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane.
So tell me how it should be.

Here he is talking about something is getting in the way of his love for her and he is about snap with anger while he is going through her diary and he has got so far through it and he still hasn’t found nothing about him and he feels like she never cared for him how is there relationship suppose to be if he don’t have a place in her heart.


Try to find out what makes you tick.
As I lie down
Sore and sick.
Do you like that?
Do you like that?

As he lays down He’s trying to think of ways to really piss her off cause he is sickened by what he is reading in the diary.



There's a fine line between love and hate.
And I don't mind.
Just let me say that
I like that
I like that

Here he is saying that there is literally a fine line between love and hate and he don’t care he likes the love hate relationship just as long as she loves him a little bit he will stay with him.



Desperate, I will crawl
Waiting for so long
No love, there is no love.
Die for anyone
What have I become?

Here he is saying that he is so desperate for her love that he would follow her no matter how long it takes to get her love and there is no love from her at all that he has seen. And he realizes that he just ain’t willing to go through this for her but he would go through anything the abuse of being cheated on or being hurt just to hear the words I love you and he is asking himself what have I become.

anonymous February 24th, 2010 06:39PM  
I think the diary is literal because of the music video. BUT I do think that its somehow metaphorical. The girl he's in love with has died, so he tries to find the answer to everything in her diary, or, in other words, her life. The video shows the girl racing around, not being able to find herself in a mirror, which could possibly mean that she didn't understand what had happened, and why her life turned out the way it did. for a while, I've always thought that he was trying to find himself in her diary, because sometimes girls write about guys in their diary? >.< funny interpretation. anyway, the Diary of Jane could be said as the life of Jane. we call lives songs, why can we not call them diaries?

anonymous March 5th, 2010 05:19PM  
My interpretation of this song is that a guy lost his daughter for she commited suiside and so he trys to figure out why she did it and how she felt about him, so he turns to her diary and finds out stuff about her that he never would have gussed but then finds out that he could have stoped her and helped her but he was to caught up in his own life and he thought that he was paying good attention to her but really he was blind and only saw her mask that she put up to keep people out, inculding him.

anonymous April 12th, 2010 10:11PM  
I think it's about a guy who loves this girl and wants to protect her. (If I had to I would put myself right beside you). But the girl is turning away from him so he's sad but excepts this. Even though she's turning away he still wants to keep her happy (do you like that, do you like that?) in the chorus he's expressing his sadness. somewhere in the course of the song she dies. (I don't know about the rest?)

anonymous April 29th, 2010 06:54PM  
It's about a girl that committed suicide and whether or not he an move past her death or to join her in it....Sheesh you guys interpret things weirdly.

anonymous June 20th, 2010 03:22AM  
I think this song more literal than anyone really seems to think. Here's my shot at trying to analyze it:
If I had to
I would put myself right beside you
So let me ask
Would you like that?
Would you like that?
If you just heard this part right here, it wouldn't make much sense. But if you were to put this at the end of the song, say, then you would interpret it differently, I think. It sounds like it means she (Jane) put herself into a bad postition, perhaps even suicide. So he's saying "Do you see what you did to me?If I could, I would kill myself, just so I wouldn't have to live in this world without you. Is that what you want? Was that your purpose? Is that your goal? For me to die?" And he's doubting himself, thinking that he could've saved her, so he's literally asking her, non-sacastically, if she was just trying to hurt him. And so goes the first line.

This line doesn't make much sense, no matter which way you slice it. Here goes:
And I don't mind
If you say this love is the last time
So now I'll ask
Do you like that?
Do you like that?
He's saying "I don't mind killing myself, if that's what you want to happen. But if you're just going to leave again, without even saying goodbye, forget it. Again, he's asking seriously if that's what she wants. If she wants him to just be miserable no matter what happens.

One word. Fairly easy to decipher.
No!
He's having second thoughts about killing himself just to be with her, Jane, who left him, who left the world, without even a simple goodbye. He's now battling himself, trying to decide whether she's worth it or not.

And the chorus. Wow. We'll see how this goes....
Something's getting in the way.
Something's just about to break.
I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane.
So tell me how it should be.
Something is holding him back from just committing the deed. He wants—very desperately—to kill himself, but his purpose on Earth isn't quite finished yet. Something is about to happen, some realization, referring to Jane, that might make him understand how and why he left him in the first place. I think there was an actual diary, he found it, but, in case of someone finding it, she used codenames, almost, so no one could understand what she had written. There was more than just one male name in the book (she was cheating) but he can't figure out if he was being cheated on, or if some other poor fellow was on the other end, and he was just a toy. He has no idea which person he is, so he's trying to find his "Place in the Diary of Jane," to quote the song exactly. Naturally, he wants to know what to expect.

Toughie....
Try to find out what makes you tick.
As I lie down
Sore and sick.
Do you like that?
Do you like that?
He's trying to figure out everything in the diary, which one he is, which one the other is, which one she is, who she truly loved, who she didn't, what "Made her tick" again quoting the song. He's laying down, like about to go to sleep, but he's got this nausiating feeling, he's sore all over but he doesn't know why. For a third time he wonders if Jane's intention was to cause immense pain and grief.

This one ought to be easy/ier (than the others)
There's a fine line between love and hate.
And I don't mind.
Just let me say that
I like that
I like that
He still doesn't know if she's still worth his life, or if she's worth his scorn, and it's nit like a few miles' walk between the two. He can't decide, but he doesn't care, he'll just stay neutral until he's sure. And that's just the way he likes it. He'd rather be confused than either lovesick and heartbroken or full of rage and fury for the dead.

Once again with the chorus. This time, you can just look back at the other chorus analyzation I have up there ^. I'm just going to try to figure out the extra tacked onto the chorus.
Something's getting in the way.
Something's just about to break.
I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane.
As I burn another page,
As I look the other way.
I still try to find my place in the diary of Jane.
So tell me how it should be.
Again, I think he's being quite literal with us on this chorus. "As I burn another page" could very literally mean him reading a page of her diary, not understanding it and burning it. But, after a while he get discouraged, which is where the "As I look the other way" comes in. He guessed as to who all the people are in Jane's diary, but he doesn't like what he sees, so he looks away. No matter what, though, he reads on, trying to find the silver lining in this thunderstorm.

Right after this is where the first verse would probably go.
Desperate, I will crawl
Waiting for so long
No love, there is no love.
Die for anyone
What have I become?
He's starving for love, and his standards are set way low. He's been waiting like a sitting duck for the right girl to cross his path, but the right girl keeps getting trashier, more desperate, and less willing to walk out on him. He's realizing, though, that his soulmate was and is still Jane. That probably won't ever change. He'd figuratively kill himself (put his heart on his sleeve) just to feel loved again. But the when he sees how different he's become, he wonders how that happened, where the old him is, and what he has become. 

I think this chorus now means something a little different, so I'm just gonna re-explain everything.
Something's getting in the way.
Something's just about to break.
I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane.
As I burn another page,
As I look the other way.
I still try to find my place in the diary of Jane.
Someone is hurting him, but he doesn't realize it, then he realizes that someone has been hurting him, but he's confused about why he's just so darn sad all the time. His sanity is about to give out. He can't take it anymore. He's still obssessing over that diary, trying to decipher who he is in her eyes, but that's putting a strain on his current relationship. He finally reaches the end of her diary, not having learned anything important, save for one thing. He found out why she killed herself. That she wrote plain as day. But he doesn't want to accept that he was either being cheated on, or being the person Jane cheated with, so, even though he's finished reading the diary, and burned it all, even the cover, he's still trying to figure out his place in  the diary of Jane.