What's the subject matter?
The subject is a woman leaving a man. The repetition of the lyrics "Don't you want me?" shows the mans desire to be together with the woman again.
What is the difference in the 2 sides of the story?
Man: He changed her life for the better. This is reflected in the lyrics "When I met you I picked you out. I shook you up and turned you around, turned you into someone new" and "... Don't forget it's me who put you where you are now and I can put you back down too". The first set of lyrics describe how he had changed her while in the second he boasts that he was the one who contributed to her success.
Woman: She could have found a better life without him. This is reflected in the lyrics "But even then I knew I'd find a much better place either with or without you". Her side of the story tells of how she would have and could have been successful without meeting him and dating him.
Who do you side with?
I side with the woman. This is because the man seems very cocky and self-absorbed with his reasoning while begging her to stay with him. Also, one could hardly determine the success of the woman rested solely on the man's help and whether or not she could have been successful without him. The woman goes on to say that the time that they've been together were great and she still loves him, but she needs to "life [her] life on [her] own". This shows that the man was very dominant in her life and she feels the need to become more independent and find herself, so the breakup wasn't ill intended.
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