anonymous March 6th, 2007 10:12PM  
She's talking about a guy she just met.
She's telling him to talk to her so she can figure out whether he's worth it and she really hopes he is:
"Say it all
Say it right
You either got it
Or you don't"
Then she talks about how he could potentially be the one:
"Oh you don't mean nothing at all to me... Do you got what it takes to set me free? Oh you could mean everything to me."
After that she tells him that she's pretty screwed up too emotionally and she's probably a guilt-ridden person who indulges in dark things:
"I can't say that I'm not lost and at fault. I can't say that I don't love the light and the dark"
Then she says that she is willing to open up to him sexually (and maybe a little bit emotionally) if she decided that he is worth it:
"And all of what I feel I could show you tonight...
From my hands I could give you something that I made.
From my mouth I could sing you another brick that I laid
From my body I could show you a place God knows.
You should know the space is holy.
Do you really want to go?"

anonymous May 30th, 2008 08:48PM  
I believe she's talking about a man who she loved. And how he's said words he didn't mean, and broke promises because he's scared. She's tired of his ways and gives him the choice to make it right.

anonymous November 28th, 2009 02:58AM  
I believe the song has a religious motivation and she is singing about Jesus.
I guess this song is a clearing with her past and her maybe strict catholic nurture.

"In the day
In the night
Say it right
Say it all
You either got it
Or you don't"

I guess in this verse she is referring to a religious person who is praying. She says you either pray consequently or forget about it. It criticises inconsequent/half-hearted prayer.

"You either stand or you fall
When your will is broken
When it slips from your hand
When there's no time for joking
There's a hole in the plan"

This verse is full of criticism against strictly religious people such as some catholics. First of all it says that there exist only absolutes such as "hot" and "cold" resp. "stand" or "fall" in your relation to god but nothing in between. She criticises that strictly religious people then would give away their free will and make them fully dependend on god ("will broken"). The bad consequence as she sees it would be the "loss" of control of your life ("slips from your hand"). Another bad consequences of religious life as she saw it maybe, is exaggerated seriousness and strictness (towards children). ("When there's no time for joking/ hole in the plan".)

"Oh you don't mean nothing at all to me
No you don't mean nothing at all to me
But you got what it takes to set me free
Oh you could mean everything to me"

Now this verse is about Jesus.
He doesn't mean anything to her but she knows that he could be the one to set her free and that he could therefore mean everything to her.
Despite knowing about the power to liberate her, liberation is denied to her resp. She doesn't get/want access to it because she is unable to get emotional attraction to him what is kind of a requirement to the liberation. But she also knows that if she wanted, he could mean everything to her. That means she is not powerless because it is also a matter of will and not only of pure emotion.

"I can't say that I'm not lost and at fault
I can't say that I don't love the light and the dark
I can't say that I don't know that I am alive
And all of what I feel I could show
You tonight you tonight"

The doubled negation of her forsakenness is an affirmation of it. That means she knows that there is no salvation but in Jesus. The second doubled negation is an affirmation that se also loves the dark. That means she does not want to quit with her sins resp. behavior of which she is aware of that it displeases god. But she is aware of herself resp. She admits she is a conscious being that could be able to pray this night and get a relation to god(last three lines).

"From my hands I could give you
Something that I made
From my mouth I could sing you another brick that I laid
From my body I could show you a place God knows
You should know the space is holy
Do you really want to go?"

Here she describes that she could obey the law and make religious efforts/rituals to please god. But she will not give her heart, will, soul and everything to god as he demands. That means god "will go", he won't accept this 'sacrifice' because this is not what god wants but it's the only thing she could offer. She seems to find it kinda sad resp. regret it that it doesn't work the "emotionless/heartless" way of religious practicing to please god and get liberated. -> read Mark 12 verse 30 in your bible or google it.



I am a believer and I can tell you what I think is her problem: she won't believe resp. get an emotional relation to god unless she doesn't really understand how sinful and lost she is without him. She wil only understand and appreciate the great liberation when she realizes how trapped she is without god. For now she is young, reckless and larking but that will change with age. btw. I am 23, no grandpa :)