The Fray - You Found Me Lyrics Meaning

For me, this song is about suicide. The person is asking the people around him why they didn't do anything. Why they didn't stop him.

"I found God,
On the corner of First and Armistad,
Where the West,
Was all but won.
All alone,
Smokin his last cigarette,
I said 'Where you been?'
He said 'Ask anything."

Like other have said before, I think this line refers to the narrator committing suicide on the corner of First and Armistad. He meets God and ask him where he's been all this time.

"Where were you,
When everything was fallin apart?
All my days,
Were spent by the telephone,
That never rang,
And all I needed was a call,
That never came,
To the corner of First and Armistad."

Here I don't think the narrator is talking to God. I think he's talking to the people around him, who loved him. He's asking, where were you when I needed you? All he needed to stop himself from killing himself was a call. He needed someone to show that they cared. But that never happened. So he went ahead and killed himself.

"Lost and insecure,
You found me,
You found me,
Lying on the floor,
Surrounded,
Surrounded,
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you?
Where were you?
It's just a little late,
You found me,
You found me."

Here I think the narrator's family/friends find him after he's done the deed. Lying on the floor, probably surrounded by a crowd and EMTs since we're assuming First and Armistad is a public place. He asks where they were and why they waited to help him. It's too late for them to save him.

"But in the end,
Everyone ends up alone,
Losing her,
The only one whose ever know,
Who I am,
Who I'm not,
Who I want to be,
No way to know,
How long she will be next to me."

Here we discover the reason the narrator committed suicide. He's lost a woman very dear to him (probably his wife) to some kind of illness.I think the last two lines back up the idea that the woman died from a disease. When people are very sick, there's no way to tell how long they'll be there and you have to be thankful for every day.

(Chorus)
Same interpretation.

"Early morning,
The city breaks,
I’ve been calling,
For years and years and years and years,
And you never left me no messages.
You never sent me no letters.
You got some kind of nerve,
Taking all I want,"

Here the narrator is yelling at God. He's been looking for God's help for a long time but God never replied. He's saying that God has some nerve, taking his wife. I think he's also saying that God has nerve saying that he'll always be there and then he never shows up.

(Chorus)
Same interpretation.

So there's what I think it's about. :)