You know, KeyStone...that makes an awful lot of sense and I never thought about it that way before.

I thought of it as coming from having a fight with your significant other, and deciding to cool it off for awhile (where you both loved each other but this fight was huge). I look at this song as an apology and explanation, also a declaration of love. She is regretting the fight ("I'm sorry, I'm sorry"), and regretting the split that they had coldly agreed upon ("Though I tried to forget/You're all that I am"). She either realizes or believes (or both) that the fight was her fault ("In all my bitterness/I ignored what's real and true") and says that she's still in love with him ("All I need is you"). She misses him dearly and wishes that they could get back together. ("All the times I've tried/To walk away from you/I fall into your abounding grace/And love is where I am") She tried to get over him, but realized that in the end, she still loves him just as much as she did before the fight ("Constantly ignoring/The pain consuming me/But this time it's cut too deep/I'll never stray again")

And the chorus is her declaration of love to him. I think it's beautiful how it combines the "I love you so much" with the "I tried to get over you and I just freakin' couldn't" lol.

I like KeyStone's analysis of it a lot, too, though.

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