The song is about a person or disease that has taken many lives and broken homes by forcibly separating families. The lyrics describe a broken window, missing faces on posters, and months going by without calls or clues about the missing people. It expresses the deep heartbreak over all the lives that have been lost and the violation of forcibly separating families despite their pleas not to let this entity or disease take their world from them. The chorus repeats that this person or disease is not really a person but a violation that takes lives and breaks hearts.