Meaning of Apologize by Timbaland ft. One Republic

This song is about a girl that hurt his boyfriend as is trying to apologize for her mistakes. Her boyfriend, the person how is singing the song, was very caring with her, never let her go and was willing to take another chance and anything just to stay with her. However, she hurt him really badly and this time he was not going to apologize her. His love for her was starting to fade and the flame he had was starting to die down. The damage was already done and even though she tried to apologize, there was no going back for her actions; he had already been through too much. The singers use the metaphor of the ten meter rope to express how what he has been through and how much he has hold on to the girl and the fire to know how his feelings are vanishing. The attitude of this song is nostalgic because he knows it is about time to let go even though he doesn’t want too. The attitudes and feeling of this song shift after the first stanza from how he loved the girl to how he knew it was time to let go. However, there overall tone of the song was sad and the theme was about a young man that knew it was time to let go of a girl that had hurt him even though he did not want to.