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.
Radio plays a song all night
Miami's just a five hour flight
Didn't you say you don't like what you're doing?
You know, last night I was on TV
Hey, don't that make you think more of me?
I didn't think I'd hate this, man, what I'm doing?
You know out here it almost never rains
and they've hardly heard about hurricanes
Well that's one less thing to care about, just like Miami
There's a lot of love and a lot of laughs
I even get to sign autographs
I'm gonna get my picture taken with Frank, Dean, and Sammy
You know I feel really lonely cause I'm always by myself
Now there's folks around and I'm not behaving properly
I don't eat too good
Don't sleep too good
Don't write too good
Don't drive too good
Don't think too good
Don't drink too good
Don't sing too good
Don't think too good
I'm alright
but I feel so miserable
Where are you tonight?
Oh, Come on come on come on come on come on...
Hold my hand, I've got a new career
But it's still warm out here, yeah it's still warm out here
I know it's lovely there this time of year
But it's still warm out here, yeah it's still warm out here
Hold my hand, I've got a new career
But it's still warm out here, yeah it's still warm out here
I know it's lovely there this time of year
But it's still warm out here, yeah it's still warm out here
Yeah, step right up, come one, come all
Got a great big tree here, watch it fall
..... ....... tryin
and that's not all
(depending on which version it is either:)
a jewel encrusted jar and an urban shawl/ a simple jug jar and an urban shawl
a pencil i scored within the chinese wall/ a person that was born in the chinese wall
a simple little model of the Taj Mahal
Miami's just a five hour flight
Didn't you say you don't like what you're doing?
You know, last night I was on TV
Hey, don't that make you think more of me?
I didn't think I'd hate this, man, what I'm doing?
You know out here it almost never rains
and they've hardly heard about hurricanes
Well that's one less thing to care about, just like Miami
There's a lot of love and a lot of laughs
I even get to sign autographs
I'm gonna get my picture taken with Frank, Dean, and Sammy
You know I feel really lonely cause I'm always by myself
Now there's folks around and I'm not behaving properly
I don't eat too good
Don't sleep too good
Don't write too good
Don't drive too good
Don't think too good
Don't drink too good
Don't sing too good
Don't think too good
I'm alright
but I feel so miserable
Where are you tonight?
Oh, Come on come on come on come on come on...
Hold my hand, I've got a new career
But it's still warm out here, yeah it's still warm out here
I know it's lovely there this time of year
But it's still warm out here, yeah it's still warm out here
Hold my hand, I've got a new career
But it's still warm out here, yeah it's still warm out here
I know it's lovely there this time of year
But it's still warm out here, yeah it's still warm out here
Yeah, step right up, come one, come all
Got a great big tree here, watch it fall
..... ....... tryin
and that's not all
(depending on which version it is either:)
a jewel encrusted jar and an urban shawl/ a simple jug jar and an urban shawl
a pencil i scored within the chinese wall/ a person that was born in the chinese wall
a simple little model of the Taj Mahal
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by pookaboots, edwoodca
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