Trouble Breathing Lyrics
While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a negative lens constantly and how as much as the writer tries to show the beauty in the world, this person refuses to see it. It's one or another between the rope and the bottle. There is no good option for this person. They can't see it. Skiba sings it in a kind of exasperated way like He's tired of hearing this negative view constantly and just allowing that person to continue feeling the way they feel knowing he can't do anything about it. You can hear it when he says maybe you're a vampire.
yeh its is about suicide but i think it might be almost an anti-suicide song, like in the first verse he sounds really disbelieving that his friend would consider him lucky to still be alive (you... you called me...). also, i dont know about you but the verse about the stars sounds really pitiful, if someone said that to me, id imagine that they were really feeling sorry for themselves and a bit self centered prehaps. skiba also ends with 'dont let your life rot you inside out', wanring you to make the most of your life maybe, but i dont think hes sympathising much
"Cuz things they never work out right "- that part is so freakin true. I mean, I think most people can relate to it, cause when we feel like crap, we don't think that things can work out. Once again, Alk3 rocks
^ Yes. Yes, it is. Very good.
I love this song. It's amazing. I can relate to. The daylight burns me and the sunrise was enough to kill me. Maybe I'm a vampire.
i love alkaline trio...this song is almost exactly how i feel right now...can u tell ive had a bad day?? haha or year
i hear ya, punkassprincess... I feel this song so much. I just love the line "Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are..." and so many others... this is definitely my fav alkaline trio song
It's about suicide.
"It's one or another Between a rope and a bottle I can tell you're having trouble breathing"
Rope=Hanging yourself Bottle=Alcohol (everyone in the Alkaline Trio is an alcoholic coke-head)
two people have the same problem one has kinda beaten it and the other is at the bottom. the guy proposing answers is doing it sarcastically and mockingly. basically saying that the other person is trying to find the bad in everything :Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are." thats my take and i have been through this shit as many have and when you help your friends out it seems silly of the things they worry about and its hard to think you once did the samething
two people have the same problem one has kinda beaten it and the other is at the bottom. the guy proposing answers is doing it sarcastically and mockingly. basically saying that the other person is trying to find the bad in everything :Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are." thats my take and i have been through this shit as many have and when you help your friends out it seems silly of the things they worry about and its hard to think you once did the samething
It's pretty sad that you both want to kill yourselves, I hope both of you are still alive and have found happiness.
Rope=Hanging yourself Bottle=Alcohol (everyone in the Alkaline Trio is an alcoholic coke-head)
this song contains my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE alk3 lyric which i quote like a fiend... "look at all those stars... look at how god damn ugly the stars are." genius.
this song is just......its amazing....it is just the way it feels when some poser tells you they're depressed....and the way it says "you'll never be ok" its right once it hurts you never really are ok again completely it just really speaks to me....one of the best alkaline trio songs in my opinion.
While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a negative lens constantly and how as much as the writer tries to show the beauty in the world, this person refuses to see it. It's one or another between the rope and the bottle. There is no good option for this person. They can't see it. Skiba sings it in a kind of exasperated way like He's tired of hearing this negative view constantly and just allowing that person to continue feeling the way...
While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a negative lens constantly and how as much as the writer tries to show the beauty in the world, this person refuses to see it. It's one or another between the rope and the bottle. There is no good option for this person. They can't see it. Skiba sings it in a kind of exasperated way like He's tired of hearing this negative view constantly and just allowing that person to continue feeling the way they feel knowing he can't do anything about it. You can hear it when he says maybe you're a vampire.