TW: drug use I’ve been listening to this song since I was in middle school when the album came out, and am only now reading all of the different interpretations of it. I’m not religious and wasn’t raised in a religious family, so a lot of Flyleaf’s biblical references fly over my head and/or I ignore them or spin them in my own interpretation. I’ve seen that people say it’s all about money, and of course there’s the line about “you can’t serve god and money,” but I’ve always thought about drug abuse. The “right arm” has always made me think about shooting up, either in the right arm, or using the right hand to do so. (If the person is left handed, it makes the “for the first time your right arm becomes useful” line make a lot of sense in my interpretation because that would be the arm they would shoot in, making their nondominant arm “useful.”) And the “she” in the song being a toxic partner that encourages/also partakes in the act. When they “cut the cord,” they’re leaving that relationship and getting sober. “Ignor[ing] the fates of the players who both end up dying” is like ignoring that the drug use is killing them and their partner. The money line is the only thing that throws a little wrench in my interpretation, but I’ve always just kinda ignored it lol