Petrol & Chlorine

I think it's about suicide

the

"had the perfect job called life you didn't like it you resigned"

makes it sound like suicide. the person resigned from life, and perhaps chemicals were involved. or maybe the person didnt kill themselves, maybe they just messed up their life with chemicals, like drugs and stuff....

and perhaps the lead singer, daniel, can't stand to see a picture in which the person who "resigned" is in, so takes it down, and is just feeling really low and depressed.

I just noticed I said pretty much what "in red weather" said...sorry about that, i should read what other people have attributed before i say something.

i think with the "take another picture off the wall" is about memories that keep him alive and slowly he is to sad and he keeps taking away reasons for him to live

This song is about someone close to Daniel killing themself. My father killed himself and this song really spoke to me and hit close to home. The Indian guitar is very melodic. This is one of the most underrated Silverchair songs.

i agree. its VERY underrated. its deffinatly a song about numbness and apathy. maybe the "resigned bit" isnt resigning from life itself. but more resigning from the emotion of life, the things that make it worth living. .. i dunnnooo..

take another draw out from the shelf i'm too weak to do it by myself

this line really relates to me as im too weak to take another draw out from the shelf myself

I agree with most of you, but all I can say is that this is one of my fav ones, the hindu sounds and all that... just awesome!

This is another depressing one. I guess it's about how you're apathetic and numb, like; "why take another picture of the wall, while ur silently staring into it", sinking through deep black voids of depression, feeling that seconds, minutes, hours, days just melt together and fades away into a nothingness and your just sinking headlong down deeper and can't do nothing about it. And I like the indian instrument in the song....

Anyone know what he means with Petrol and Chlorine? Is it that Chlorine and Petrolium produces dioxins that are dangerous for the environment and causes cancer, and that brain is a pure square of grass, and therefore growing on crap and such? Does anyone know? thank you...

I think in this song he's mourning the loss of a friend who killed themselves, possibly by inhaling petrol, or drowning in a pool (chlorine), somehow abusing his body in some way...and daniel can't seem to pick himself up after his friend's death...so he sinks into depression.

Combining two ideas that said Daniel referred to the song's meaning. I can see it being about someone who doesn't believe in them self and considers suicide as a way out.