The singer is in a relationship, and is thinking about what will happen when their lover grows disinterested and moves onto better people.
I want your fingers on my ribs and your thumbs on my back
And push and set me open till my you hear my bones crack
And it’s awful how this universe is written out so that I
Ended up just looking but it’s not that bad
And I wish you’d take a little time to take me over for a while
And touch my soul with your smile, and you
Make your body snake and wind yourself up
I cut myself, it’s not so hard to grow up
But the one half sees what the other half’s got
Sometimes I feel like I’d rather just rot
And I know that there are better people
I know that they smell nice
Know that I am taken but I’d probably take advice
From the other girl looks better with her cheap tights on—
What you gonna look like when your love is gone?
Oh, I’ve got too much space around me
Oh, I’ve got too many people around me
And I like your shadow cos it’s big and helps me up
And your music that inspires me to wake myself up
And I’m worried that I never really tried, now pretend
To make myself a person you’ll respect and defend
And I wish you’d take a little time to take me over for a while
And touch my soul with your smile, and you
Make your body snake, and wind yourself up
I cut myself, it’s not so hard to grow up
But the one half sees what the other half’s got
Sometimes I feel like I’d rather just rot
And I know that there are better people
I know that they smell nice
Know that I am taken but I’d probably take advice
From the other girl looks better with her cheap tights on—
What you gonna look like when your love is gone?
Oh, I’ve got too much space around me
Oh, I’ve got too many people around me
When it all looks broken
Nothing can stop me
I feel nothing can stop me
I feel energy pulsating
I hate this joy
I know it will break in me
Suck out my energy
Everything breaks in me
When it all looks broken
Nothing can stop me
I feel nothing can stop me
I feel energy pulsating
I hate this joy
And I know it will break in me
Suck out my energy
Everything breaks in me
(I keep myself to myself, but that’s okay)
(Oh how I tried to share my life today)
(I won’t go back to this today)
(And it’s why I need to know he hates)
When it all looks broken
Nothing can stop me
I feel nothing can stop me
I feel energy pulsating
I hate this joy
I know it will break in me
Suck out my energy
Everything breaks in me
When it all looks broken
Nothing can stop me
I feel nothing can stop me
I feel energy pulsating
I hate this joy
And I know it will break in me
Suck out my energy
Everything breaks in me
When it all looks broken
Nothing can stop me
I feel nothing can stop me
I feel energy pulsating
I hate this joy
And I know it will break in me
Suck out my energy
Everything breaks in me