It sounds like it could be a song about heartbreak, from a female perspective.
>And you don't seem to understandHere the singer is highlighting a disconnect between her and her lover. There is something that he "[doesn't] seem to understand". The immediate interpretation of this casts the singer or some aspect of her personality as the thing which seems not to be understood.
>A shame, you seemed an honest manThis implies betrayal or deception of some kind, and expresses regret at the loss of the honest man she thought she had.
>And all the fears you hold so dear/Will turn to whisper in your earThe contradiction hear is one that is likely to slip past unnoticed for the first few listenings – wait, why would fears be dear to someone? This implies some kind of instability within the man – possibly denial, possibly escapism, possibly self-hatred, possibly an entire constructed reality demarked by fears at every border. The imagery of "fears … [whispering] in your ear" suggests delusion, and opens up an alternative interpretation of the first line – perhaps the thing he doesn't understand is himself. This interpretation de-emphasizes the identity of the singer by removing a reference to her own emotional needs,
making the signer more Lain-like, more detached from reality yet omnipresent within reality, but if we were a normalfag listening to this on the radio, we wouldn't know that.
>And you know what they say (I*) might hurt youThe singer could be saying two different things here: "And you know what they say might hurt you" (i.e. sticks and stones) or "And you know what they say,
I might hurt you". This is a powerful double meaning: it means either they might hurt you and I will try to protect you from them, or that I might hurt you and that they are trying to protect you from me. In the context of a breakup, this makes sense.
>And you know that it means so much"It" could be our relationship – perhaps that's what is going to be damaged by either "what they say" or me.
>And you don't even feel a thingThis could imply callousness or depressed emotional numbness. Alternatively, by contrast between the two lines, it could again
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