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I need your love
I need your time
When everything's wrong
You make it right
I feel so high
I come alive
I need to be free with you tonight
I need your love
The first stanza of this song conveys the singer's strong 'need' for a certain man. Her strong desire for him is made extremely clear through the parallel structure running throughout the stanza; by repeating the use of "I" and associating it with words such as "need" and "feel," the song write conveys her intense desires, almost obsession, over this man. However, a key question left unanswered is why the singer desires the man so much. Indeed, there is no mention as to why the woman has such a strong attraction towards this man in these short and concise statements of need in each line. In fact, the song write suggests that the singer herself has forgotten exactly why she chases after this man; because she feels "so high" and is coming "alive," the song write suggests that she simply feels too delirious to stay rational, and even leaves room for interpretation of these phrases in a sexual context, where the woman craves the excitement of sex with the man again. Regardless, this stanza focuses on the intense, almost beastly craving the woman has for this man, and how love can cloud up a person's judgement.
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I'm at a payphone trying to call home
All of my change I spent on you
Where have the times gone?
Baby it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two
In the first stanza, the singer introduces an important and recurring symbol: the payphone. Just as real payphones require money to provide service to call others, the singer feels that he has put in a lot of time and dedication into his relationship with the unnamed woman. However, his dedication stands in direct contrast with the result of the relationship; through the singer's complaints about "all of [his] change [he] spent" as well as the phrase "it's all wrong," the singer conveys a sense of anguish and frustration, as all of his efforts have been in vain. Despite his repeated failures of trying to "call him," it is clear that the singer still wishes for the relationship to continue. By using terms of endearment such as "baby" as well as references to "plans we made for two," the singer still has hopes of getting back together with the woman who is distanced from him, despite the bleakness of the situation, even though the woman isn't "picking up."
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We were
The first stanza of this song is about the singer's flashback to a time when she met a young man at a party. The author nostalgically refers back to this incident by describing it occurring when "we"--who is not specified--were both "young" when they "first met," invoking feelings of youthful joy and innocence, hinting at the love which is to develop between the two. As the evening goes on, feelings of dreaminess and bashful curiosity is emphasized by the singer's presence on the "balcony in summer air," where one could peek at a crush while dreaming of being in love. These feelings are confirmed when the boy, towards the end of the stanza, comes up "through the crowd" to say "hello," epitomizing the innocence, beauty, and purity of young love.
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(fall for anything)
This is an attempt to explain the whole stanza:

The second stanza of the song serves as the refrain of the song, focusing on key motifs such as wounds and scars. The song writer rationalizes the cuts made to the singer as checks to see if he or she is "hollow on the inside." The literally interpretation of this line does not add up to much; logically, one could cut something to see if it is hollow or contains flesh, blood, and bone; however, when taken in a spiritual context, the "cuts" could be interpreted as hurtful words and actions meant to be trials of the singer's morals and core beliefs, with "hollowness' referring to the lack of these beliefs, which keep people grounded and prevent them from committing silly actions.
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And slowly start to breathe.
Those words hurt, but I know that I'm not broken until I bleed, so
This is a radical shift in the topic of the song. Initially, the singer only complains of unnamed, outside factors causing him/her to be unable to focus and enjoy the quite song on the headphones. However, now the song writer transitions to images of blood and violence, suggesting that the singer is "hurt" by words.

Here, being "hurt" takes on a double meaning. In one sense, it is presumable that the singer has gotten into an argument with someone and "feels" hurt, but when taking into account the reference to blood in the same line, the song write implies that words can sting and cause damage just as much as real weapons.
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quiet song
Unlike the song itself, as well as the heavy and extreme beat the song has, the phrase "quiet song" stands in direct contrast with the song itself. Perhaps, this is a sign that the person singing wishes to achieve peace, as he puts on headphones in order to "block it out." When taking this couplet into account with the rest of the song, it seems that the singer is trying to escape from the hectic and conflicting life.
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doses
A note about the meter of this song:

As seen in many parts of this song, such as the refrain, the last words are usually two syllables, sung in trochee. Additionally, the song writer uses consonance between these words, giving off a sense of a beat, a drone, one that conveys frustration at the singer's current situation.
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