Not Strong Enough

I just made an account to comment on this. I'm not sure what he means with the song, but I can say what it means to me. Not long ago the first woman I ever actually loved broke up with me, I had invested everything that is me into the relationship, but she "wanted to stay friends". I couldn't resist. It was then three months later I found out that She was cheating on me with a friend of mine for 6 months before. I couldn't believe it, and it is still so hard to. She is such a kind person.... Anyway that is what it makes me think of, because I am still "friends" with here. I know I shouldn't be, it only ever hurts, but I am.

This song is everything i feel right now. It popped up in my life the right time; so glad i bought this album, i just can't stop listening to it.

Cheers

This song really means alot to me, this girl and i have had a relationship and i let my guard down 2 to many times... I think that some people just have a way of hooking people, and the person in this story is one of those unfortunate victims. No matter what she does in there relationship, (breaks up for no reason, abuses him, etc.) he stilll wants her. hes addicted to her.

This is how this song fits my situation and what this means to me:

I'm still in love with my ex. My heart is chained to him, like the song says. He doesn't love me back (or so he says) but he continues to come around wanting something from me. But I'm not strong enough to stay away from him because without him, I feel dead. I would love to be able to leave him, but deep down, I don't want to. I'm drawn to that little something that he has that I love so much. I'm addicted to him. I think he tries to relive our love at times and it's just not the same but at the same time, it feels so right. He has another girlfreind and so what we talk about is wrong, whether she cares or not but in my heart, I really feel no shame. I'm not quilty for it. It sounds bad but I pretty much don't even care. It's just the feeling of weakness that makes my heart want more even though my mind is telling me to leave and my heart often over powers my mind. But the deciding between the pleasure and the pain part, for me, means that I get the pleasure of talking to him and feeling loved by him and messing around with him when I really shouldn't be or the pain of not having him at all because I know what's best for me. So I guess, what this all means is, I can't let go because subconciously I don't want to and I can't. I could go on and on about this song because I can describe what every sentence means to me but I've bored you all ebough lol.

Agree with all the comments, love BlackVeiledBride's detail of her personal story, i feel the emotion and conflict u go through when u just talk to him.

Similar to many great love songs, the song describes the emotion and conflict of being in love. It's contradictory and irrational for the 'outside' world, but love is not rational. The point i really wanted to make is that it doesn't need to necessarily have to be a bad relationship, the main factor is how much in love the singer is with this person, that alone is enough to torture him...the fact that he cannot set any boundaries in the relationship...he would do anything for this person and acknowledging this is torturing him...an analogy is a morally sound person falling this deeply in love with a beautiful person that is married, the conflict of his moral belief's and his love..and the subject of the song, the emotional surrender to love that is not right...

Being an addict and alcaholic in recovery this song speaks to me in that sense.

For me, it's a song that represents my battle with alcohol. Well, at least it used to be. Sober for about a year now.

Awsome song! my opinion on what it is about is a girl/boy is in a relationship.They want to leave because of the abuse he/she is bringing on them. there forth sayin

"I'm not strong enough to stay away"

what is really crazy is that this album was released on the same excact day my stepfather did domestic violence......heh funnny

this song is amazing one, and i think also it came into my life at the perfect time everything he sings i can completely understand and it says how i feel exactly.

i believe its about a crumbling relationship things aren't what they used to be something happen weather its abuse mentally or physically or something else is going on in the relationship. the person is speaking about how hard it is to figure out what to do in a relationship when the other person is you're everything and you can't live without them. now that things are where they are it's hard to figure out what to do and leaving seems to be the best option but you're confused and can't completely be sure "I know its wrong and i know its right" to leave and you love that person so you are having a hard time figuring out what to do weather you want to live with your "pleasure or pain" in leaving or staying. you cant leave because you keep being drawn back to that person. they know you and have your heart and bring it to its knees when speaking and looking at them. your chained to that person you love them and the love you have is killing you in side because you got to the point where it had to be so hard. so its really just about the decisions you have to make for yourself and figuring it out when you love someone so deeply but the love you have may not be so easy when they are your rock and have your heart in such a fice. its the internal battle of a break up and whats best in the long run.

Great song. I believe it's about a man who is scared of getting hurt and he is letting that fear overpower and ruin what could be the best relationship of his life because he keeps going back and forth. She can only take so much.