Instead of giving up, realize that, after all you've been through, after everything you've done, you've proven that you're too strong to give up hope that things can't be great, that you won't always be that door mat, so when things get bad, just remember that you know you're strong enough to get back up and move forward. Don't accept anything less than you deserve. These lines mirror the previous section about making the choice to stand up and move forward, not give up, to be strong and not give in. If it is going to get the best of you, then you should fight to get the best of it, too. I think it's saying instead of letting it hurt you, see it through. You can man up, or lay down, and one is easier than the other, but only one of them is an acceptable choice to make if you want anything good to happen. You have a choice, to give in to being let down, it's that "are you a man or a mouse" kind of thing. "Were you born to resist, or be abused?" is rhetorical. This part of the song is like that rebelious point. I think this song is consoling that breaking point, where you feel like you're going insane trying not to be hurt by things anymore.
I think this part of the song is just saying that you're not imagining things, that pain, those let downs, those situations where you've felt used and taken advantage of, where you put in more than you were supposed to get back, they're real, and the narrorator of the song recognizes that you would die to heal those wounds, and be done with those pains. When this happens so often, and you get beaten down, there comes a point where you just want to stop being you, and stop careing, but you can't.
We enter things with good intentions, expecting equal return, nothing less, but more importantly, nothing more. Some of us are "door mats." We do this too often. General CommentHave you ever given something (or someone if you like being so cliche) everything you have, and been hurt by it? Like you were conned out of an experience, or something? You feel like you wish you hadn't begun whatever it is that put you where you are now. Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
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