The phrase "flogging a dead horse" refers to wasting energy on a lost cause. Here, Hayley Williams talks about a relationship that she should have abandoned long before she actually did.
The relationship Hayley Williams is referencing is with New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert. It began as an affair back in 2008, when she was 18 and he was married to Eisley vocalist Sherri DuPree-Bemis. They got engaged on Christmas Day 2014 and married 14 months later, but split up in the summer of 2017 after Gilbert cheated on Williams.
During the song, Williams comes clean about getting involved with a married man and her shame of what she did to Sherri. After getting married to Gilbert, she tried her best to make the relationship work only for her husband to betray her. And after all, it's only fair, yeah I got what I deserved; I was the other woman first Other others on the line But I kept trying to make it work Their relationship lasted much longer than it should have, but in the end Williams was flogging a "dead horse."
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