This song is about someone who witnessed a rape down by the steam, which could have been his friend or his girlfriend. He didn't do anything to stop it and now she is feeling all the pain. They took her away and him not knowing where she is, is killing him inside to a point where he wishes he did something. In all honesty, if they had a gun, and he tried to save her, they would have shot him, and she would have been taken anyway.