I'm Not Okay (I Promise) [Live]

The song is about a boy likes/love a girl a lot, and she likes him as well, but not enough to break up with her boyfriend to be with only him. They sneak around, and continue to do so though the boyfriend has nearly caught them multiple times, ("Remember when you broke your foot from jumping out the second floor"). But there is jealousy when the sees the girl with her boyfriend ("For all the dirty looks, the photographs your boyfriend took"). His many attempts at convincing her to break off her relationship with her boyfriend fall short ("What will it take to show you that it's not the life it seems"). He finally tells her he will no longer sneak around ("I held you close as we both shook for the last time, Take a good hard look") because it wears him out to deal with the secrecy ("You wear me out"). She makes attempts at charming him into staying, but he no longer falls for her acts ("Another line without a hook"). But he is still heartbroken ("I'm not okay"), because he did love. As much as he tells her he is all right ("But you really need to listen to me, because I'm telling you the truth, I mean this, I'm okay, trust me"), he is not.