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.
I've the sun for the spoken word
And your obscene but never heard
You couldn't do your hair
You couldn't do your job
You couldn't liven us up with a cattle prod
But here you come like I knew you would
Do I just love you 'cause you look quite good
And here you come, are you the happy boy
Or are you just another, are just another one more
Because we step the step behind
Because we kiss and time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful...sometimes
Because we kiss in time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful
Lifetime in the rain is ours
60 years in people's car
I've heard of happy ever after
It was just a joke, but you could die laughing
Here you come like I knew you would
Do I just love you 'cause you look quite good
And here you come, are you the happy boy
Or are you just another, are just another one more
Because we step the step behind
Because we kiss and time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful...sometimes
Because we kiss in time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful
We kiss in time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful...sometimes
We kiss in time
We love our kind
We're wonderful
And your obscene but never heard
You couldn't do your hair
You couldn't do your job
You couldn't liven us up with a cattle prod
But here you come like I knew you would
Do I just love you 'cause you look quite good
And here you come, are you the happy boy
Or are you just another, are just another one more
Because we step the step behind
Because we kiss and time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful...sometimes
Because we kiss in time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful
Lifetime in the rain is ours
60 years in people's car
I've heard of happy ever after
It was just a joke, but you could die laughing
Here you come like I knew you would
Do I just love you 'cause you look quite good
And here you come, are you the happy boy
Or are you just another, are just another one more
Because we step the step behind
Because we kiss and time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful...sometimes
Because we kiss in time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful
We kiss in time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful...sometimes
We kiss in time
We love our kind
We're wonderful
Lyrics submitted by 3ssence
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