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Feb 10th 2012!⃝I think this song has a few meanings. One that I don't see many people saying is a possible religious interpretation. Religion is, after all, one of the reasons listed in Josh's excuse for leaving.
"You were my consience" - Jesus used to be her virtue, her rock.
"So solid, and now you're like water" - she used to be completely convicted in her faith, but she's not so sure anymore. Fame and fortune have started to get to her.
"But I let my heart go, it's somewhere down at the bottom" - she's stopped caring about the religious mumbo-jumbo and now just focuses on worldly things.
"But I'll get a new one and come back for the hope that you've stolen" - she'll take a new side, find a new cause, and regain that fire she once had about the Lord, if she can find it anywhere else. Perhaps She's blaming Him for leaving her, and now she feels abandoned and hopeless.
"I'll stop the whole world, I'll stop the whole world from turning into a monster and eating us alive" - she realizes that her mistakes have dragged her and her loved ones down, and now she has to fix it before it eats her alive.
"Don't you ever wonder how we survive?" - It's only through the blood of Christ that we have eternal life - surviving forever in heaven.
"Well now that you're gone, the world is ours." - now that her old ways are gone from her life, the world has opened up before her go begin anew.
"I'm only human, I've got a skeleton in me." - Okay, now, this is pretty big. Many conspiracy theories are out there about the music industry (as well as Hollywood, the government, etc.) and the people in it. Believe them or not, it doesn't really matter. This whole verse seems to be addressing those who believe in or fuel those theories. With this line, she's saying that yes, she is in fact a human, not a reptilian shapeshifter or a demon or whatever else people claim stars like her to be.
"But I'm not the villain, despite what you're always preaching." - people like Vigilant Citizen and others claim she is part of the Free Masons or Illuminati, the major "villains" in America. She's saying that she's not one of them, or at least not willingly. Hayley is aware of people claiming she's evil, and she's protesting.
"Call me a traitor" - many people, including former bandmate Josh Farro, have called her out on her straying from her faith and even belonging to the other side.
"I'm just collecting your victims" - she has reached, or has tried to reach, people religiously in crossover material - namely "We Are Broken" and "Let the Flames Begin." People she may have reached could possibly have been turned off from God in the past and having cried "victim."
"They're getting stronger; I hear them calling, (Calling) they're calling!" - Those people she's reached out to have grown in faith (I'm sort of going out on a limb with that).
"Well you found a strength in solutions, but I liked the tension in not always knowing the answers" - People always like to claim they have the definitive answer, especially when it comes to things like the question as to whether this guy or that chick is one of Them, but Hayley liked leaving room for possibility, because one can't really know the answers for sure. She might be trying to be ambiguous about whether she really is one of Them, or if They even exist.
"Well you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it" - Satan is going to lose, no matter what you believe, and she knows it.
Of course, one could always turn everything I just said around and make the Illuminati the good guys and God the monster in her eyes. I just like to be optimistic and believe she's turned it around for the better. But again, who knows.
