 Lyrically , the song is a " melancholic and mature farewell " to a failed relationship . Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone wrote Rihanna " slow @-@ boiling " interprets the line " What you did to me was a crime " . According to Jude Rogers of BBC Music the lyrics of the song hint towards her failed relationship with Brown . A reviewer of Plugged In wrote that the lyrics that allude to this are " And I let you reach me one more time / But that ’ s enough . " According to the reviewer , she later admits that the she was blind by her emotional confusion , " your love ain ’ t the kind you can keep . " Jon <unk> of The New York Times wrote that Rihanna compares her love to a crime scene in the " elegiac " " Cold Case Love " which features the couplet " Prints , pictures and white outlines / Are all that 's left at the scene of a cold case love " . 
