For some reason, I hear a relationship ending in both this song, and in Audience of One, which would contradict both music videos.

Anyway, I find this as a relationship thing because it starts off with the man realizing how far apart he and his woman have become.

"It kills me not to know this, but I've all but just forgotten what the color of her eyes were, and her scars or how she got them. As the telling signs of age rain down a single tear is dropping, through the valleys of an aging face that this world has forgotten."

They're getting older too, and this doesn't help the situation.

"There is no reconsiliation that will put me in my place and there is no time like the present to drink these draining seconds. But seldom do these words ring true when I'm constantly failing you, like walls that we just can't break through until we dissapear."

Nothing he can do can repair their relationship, and they just get older by the minute. The words are words of a break-up, nothing specific, but they're definitely ringing true because he's constantly failing her, and they just can't get through this rough patch.

"So tell me now, if this aint love then how do we get out? Cuz i dont know. Thats when she said I dont hate you boy I just want to save you while there's still something left to save, thats when I told her I love you girl but I'm not the answers for the questions that you still have."

So, they now know that they're not in love, but how should they end it? Because he obviously doesn't know. She clarifies by saying that she doesn't hate him, but they're getting older and he needs to live his life out the way he wants to. He still loves her, but he just is not the person to satisfy what she wants.

"But the day pressed on like crushing weights, for no man does it ever wait. Like memories of dying days that deafen us like hurricanes. Bathed in flames we held the brand, uncurled the fingers in your hand, pressed into the flesh like sand, now do you understand?"

This part, I'm iffy on. So the beginning is more talk about how time keeps going, and they're not getting anywhere. "Bathed in flames" (as in making an end) they held a final decision (once you're branded, it usually stays there) and that's it, it's final.

Chorus

"One thousand miles away, there's nothing left to say. There's so much left that I don't know. We never had a choice, this world is too much noise, it takes me under. It takes me under once again."

Now they've separated, and they're done with each other. Just because he's separated from her, though, didn't really solve his problems. In the end though, they never really had a choice, it was the only solution, but it still failed him.

Repeated stuff

The END!