anonymous January 17th, 2007 01:48PM  
The song is about clinging to the vices that you know only hurt you while at the same time recognizing that you need to make a change and allowing someone in to help you. It's knowing that you're in a bad place and wanting to get out but for whatever reason (fear of change, self-doubt...) not being able to let go of your vice, let go of the pain. The song is pretty universal. The pain could be from anything... drugs, self-injury, love. I've experienced the latter myself. I still am. I'm with a guy that I know I don't belong with and I know I might be happier elsewhere but I just can't walk away. Even when I do... I come back. Try this... clear your head, turn on the song, close your eyes... and just listen. let the music and the lyrics bring out that pain... That feeling of knowing it's wrong and wanting to change it but still not letting go.

anonymous March 11th, 2007 01:51PM  
Not sure why so many of you are obsessed with cutting. just because someone writes a song about pain doesn't mean it has to be physical. I think it's ridiculous that the majority of people who have posted here are so obsessed with this "the song is about cutting" theory. Is our world really that desperate to see someone hurt themselves? or is it just that there are a few people who don't know how to cope so they cut and need to justify it by imagining that someone else, everyone else, is in the same boat. I hate to burst everyone's sadomasochistic bubble but not everything has to be that transparent. So please, people... enough with the cutting theories. why don't you take out that mental wall you've built and dive a little deeper for your interpretation. personally I agree with the interpretation submitted 1/17/2007. There are 2 "voices" in this song. The calmer, rational "I know this isn't right and I want to change it" side... and the more intense, passionate "this is the only thing I know and even though it hurts me I'm scared to let go." think about it. There's a message within the music. not just the lyrics. lyrics are only one part of a song.

anonymous March 24th, 2007 02:55AM  
This song is about depression. When you're depression you feel emotionless and numb to everything around you, the only real emotion you feel is sadness. "Anger and agony are better than misery" pretty much sums it up.

anonymous March 24th, 2007 02:55AM  
This song is about depression. When you're depression you feel emotionless and numb to everything around you, the only real emotion you feel is sadness. "Anger and agony are better than misery" pretty much sums it up.

anonymous April 6th, 2007 03:50PM  
It's about lead singer Adam Gontier's Battle with drugs and the PAIN he had to go through

anonymous July 29th, 2007 01:14AM  
I agree with poster above, Adam went cold turkey with OxyContins and inspired me to do the same. Oxy is a narcotic which becomes addicting and the withdrawals are painful and agonizing. That's what the song is about, feeling pain and being in love is better than being numb and being an apathetic person.

anonymous August 19th, 2007 01:22AM  
Pain isn't a curse. It's a gift. It's a gift to feel such incredible emotion. I'm not sure if the band is relating to physical pain, or mental pain. maybe it's both. pain is feeling something. The only other worst pain would be to be immune to it. When you're going through a depression or a shitty time in your life, this song is turning it around by looking at feeling pain as a privilege, sort of.

anonymous October 17th, 2007 05:33PM  
This isn't an interpretation, but I have something to say to everyone sending in their own.

Unless you have cold, hard facts of the band talking about their meaning of the song, don't fucking persecute people and insult them for having a different viewpoint on what you so arrogantly think is correct.

anonymous November 17th, 2007 12:02PM  
He wrote this song when he was in rehab as other songs did in rehab too! This song is not about sex ok?!?!

anonymous December 3rd, 2007 08:46PM  
Well, for one I don't understand how some of you have interpreted it to be about sex, you can't ONLY look at the chorus, and you might want to also look at the video, if the song was about sex I think the video would have been a bit different....

I agree with the thing about the lead singer getting clean from oxycottons

but if you look at it from a more universal point of view I feel like it's about depression OR being addicted to drugs, both make you feel numb, you don't care about anything anymore. and I think it's pretty clear what they mean after that, feeling pain is better than feeling nothing. and he is showing that to someone else who's suffering in a similar way.

anonymous January 2nd, 2008 12:55AM  
When Three Days Grace played in my city last year, Adam openly admitted that this song was written based on what he felt when he realized he had a drug addiction that he needed to face and control. It is easy to tie many other meanings to this song, because to every individual, it could have a separate meaning because most people can relate to it regardless if they have had a drug addiction or have faced other forms of "pain" in their lives. One thing I love about Three Days Grace is that Adam puts everything into his vocals when he's singing, you can feel the emotion, which is why his songs are so effective.

anonymous January 18th, 2008 06:18PM  
I think this song is about someone having pain and telling them that the pain their feeling wheel alive is better then felling nothing after committing suicide

anonymous March 29th, 2008 10:32PM  
Pain without love, pain can't get enough, pain I like it rough because I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all...

means basically that he likes having sex with or without it being love

anonymous April 18th, 2008 10:05PM  
The song simply is about not giving up on life no matter what it throws at you said so from Adam himself on a live radio interview it may be on Google. basically it says "pain without love, pain can't get enough, pain I like it rough cause id rather feel pain then nothing at all" its saying that pain is your friend it lets you know your alive and so he can't get enough because it lets him he knows he's alive and the "nothing at all" is death.

anonymous May 1st, 2008 11:48PM  
Guys! When you hear a song, your interpretation is your interpretation. The inspiration is one thing, and is the writer's interpretation (as the drug withdrawal is to this song), but each person is intitled to their own interpretation.

I feel that this song is about a person who has become emotionally numb to the world, only feeling "anger and agony". He/she "likes it rough" because the only thing that he/she can feel is the physical hurt the world presses on him/her. When the song mentions the "lights (going) up" and "down," it is a reference to the rising and setting sun causing the lights in the houses going on and off.

The singer is teaching their coping style to the other in their situation throughout the song. The other is handling the pain of the world differently and the singer tries to help make things easier to "cope." They teach the other to love and embrace the pain of the world, and "know" that this acceptance will help the other.

anonymous May 17th, 2008 05:29PM  
Being a submissive in a Master/slave BDSM relationship, this song speaks to me completely. I completely relate its words, with the exception of "without love" because a D/s relationship is very, very loving. I can relate to the desire for pain, and the need for it as well. For some people, it completes their entire being.

Please don't judge...try and understand...

psycho410 June 7th, 2008 09:51PM  
Are you that daft? it is not talking about physical pain but mental and emotional pain..and in the sense that one would rather be feeling pain or anger than be dead (feel nothing at all) and possibly that anger does in essence feels good and it replaces all other possibly more dangerous emotions (i.e.) depression or suicide...

anonymous July 1st, 2008 05:33PM  
People. Three Days Grace is not an emo band, their songs have much more meaning then, "I want to cut myself to feel something."

This song is about sex, in my opinion. Not in a perverted, bad way. He's saying basically, I like it when you hurt me, its better then feeling nothing. Its just... rough sex people. Great song.

emo_scremo94 July 24th, 2008 06:54PM  
I think it's about love and showing the person about his life and how much pain has come out of it and how much he is starting to like it. How he has so much of it it made him numb which he wishes he could feel it. He heard someone which he wants to feel bad but he can't and he's trying to stop this person from letting it happen but who really knows but three days grace! I love them!

emo_scremo94 July 29th, 2008 06:49PM  
"Pain without love pain can't get enough pain I like it rough because I rather feel pain then nothing at all"

I think he's felt pain so much that he can't feel it and him being so numb about it. He wishes he could feel it agian but what do I know? I'm not Three Days Grace so I shouldn't assume.