This song is something that is sad. This person can not say what his heart is telling him to say. It seems like he doesn't know how to say what he needs to say. To show how he feels he writes a song about how he shouldn't have open his heart and let someone in. Now that person is inside of his heart he can't say hi or anything that is needed to be said. So he tries to show it without saying a word, thus the title without a word. To me these words hits what people can't say to other people, out of fear of being hurt. However they try to find a way without saying it. In this case he didn't mean to fall in love but now that he has he has no clue on how to handle what he feels. He feels that he shouldn't have looked. That he made a mistake. Now he doesn't understand how to let someone he loves leave. A love mistake.