This is a song I love a lot. But I am not sure what the lyric means exactly,especially the first few lines.

For example, "the stone set in your eyes", "the thorn twist in your side" and "Sleight of hand and twist of fate"

With or Without You

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

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Thanks