anonymous October 21st, 2008 05:55PM  
This song is about the romance of a relationship but took for ones self-pleasure.
"Your stain on my fingers,
like a headache that the pills won't kill"

This means that the characters partner is stuck in his/her head and are unable to get rid of them.

"I sat beneath the burning tree,
I never gave my world away"

This meaning that the character has not given themselves away for their partners self pleasure. The Buring Tree could be a metaphor for their relationship or a dying relationship.