anna2 March 19th, 2007 12:55AM  
The song deals with the protagonist coming to her senses after a failed relationship and possibly, loss of virginity she is communicating the trauma of her experience and her inability/ unwillingness to enter into another relationship

anonymous August 15th, 2008 08:31AM  
I think this song is about rape and it's following shame. The main line that gave me that idea was "I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor".

What happens is, our protagonist meets this guy, thinks him nice, okay, whatever (I thought I saw a man brought to life
He was warm, he came around like he was dignified).

Then he rapes her. She is lost, confused, distraught, and can't believe he'd betray her like that (He showed me what it was to cry/Well you couldnt be that man I adored/You don't seem to know, don't seem to care what your heart is for/But I don't know him anymore/Theres nothing where he used to lie/My conversation has run dry/Thats whats going on, nothings fine I'm torn).

She is very upset, he is heartless, and she thinks that she is utterly ruined. (the chorus)

She thinks her ideas of him being all good were an 'illusion'(Illusion never changed into something real)

There were warning signs before, which she ignored. (So I guess the fortune tellers right/Should have seen just what was there and not some holy light).

Girl thinks she never had any luck anyway, and this fits in with her life. (To crawl beneath my veins and now/I don't care, I have no luck, I don't miss it all that much/Theres just so many things that I can't touch, I'm torn)

...This made a lot more sense in my head.

poshgurl168 November 15th, 2008 12:50AM  
I think it is about this girl who has met this guy that she falls in love with. She thought things were going very well with the guy and it might have blossomed. Some thing happened and for a long time, they lost contact with each other and she doesn't seem to know him anymore. She knew that he doesn't really care about her anyway because he never made the first move and she feels sad that her love at first sight is still in her mind and she can't make it go away or change the past. She just lets her desire to be loved by him and his insensitivity tear her apart, because she knew very well that her love for him will not have a good turn out anyway.

anonymous March 9th, 2009 07:17PM  
It's def not about rape

anonymous May 26th, 2009 09:37PM  
Always felt it was about being beaten..and possibly raped by a guy who "lost the act"

anonymous June 14th, 2009 05:49PM  
She fell in love with a man that was everything she wanted, he was absolutely perfect...but that is the illusion. She then saw him for who he really was after he hurt her (however it was that he hurt her...maybe he lied to her, cheated on her, or just up and left her). He wasn't the person she thought he was but by the time she realized it her heart was already broken. The damage was already done, her perfect world is no longer perfect and she is now "torn". She feels like an idiot for actually believing the illusion was real. Now, she has no faith in true love anymore, doesn't think it exists because she found exactly what she wanted in a man, just to find it all an illusion..it wasn't even real. Now every man who comes into her life is "too late" because her heart or her soul...or maybe both are broken and she will never be able to love the same way again.

angelgoddess123 July 28th, 2009 04:36PM  
When she says "Im cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor" i think that it means that she is vulnerable and insercure, her ex had hurt her where it hurts and made her walls, that she had built up possible from her last ex before him, fall down!! Now she is vulnerble and alone. :(

anonymous August 12th, 2009 07:57PM  
It's about women in third world countries who have babies and tear a hole in their vaginas to their buttholes. This is the real meaning. They feel ashamed from this and that is where the lyrics come from.

anonymous October 2nd, 2009 09:21PM  
I believe the song is about a mother whom has a son. Tried to raise him right and all fails. He doesn't seem to love anyone and that is hwy she is torn. Torn from the fact that she may have done everything in her power to raise him to be kind and it didn't go as planned.