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.
If you wanna be a man, you better learn to obey!
Yeah!
I put these things on my boobs, I try to tell you what to do,
Get your boy-toy under control, free my soul, free my soul,
You gotta test the testes of love, so whip it out boy, and put on that glove,
Slave boy, why don't you listen to me?
'Cause I got a ton of money.
I'll make you love me with my big strong hands,
So do your duty and act like a man,
I made it through on my knees, Poppa, don't preach my pink undies,
I like to let it all hang out, I'm dancin', baby, 'cause I know how,
You gotta test the testes of love, so whip it out boy, and put on that glove,
Slave boy, why don't you listen to me? [Slave, slave boy]
'Cause I got a ton of money.
I'll make you love me with my big strong hands,
So do your duty and act like a man. [Be a man]
Make you a man with a slap of my hand,
Make you a man with a slap of my hand,
Make you a man with a slap...SLAP,
Gotta tie you up to get down
Gotta tie you up to get down
Gotta tie you up to get down
Gotta tie you up to get down [Peach pit baby]
Gotta tie you up...
Peach pit baby!
Slave boy, why don't you listen to me? [Slave, slave boy]
'Cause I got a ton of money.
I'll make you love me with my big strong hands,
So do your duty and act like a man. [Be a man]
Act like a man.
Act like a man, boy
Yeah!
I put these things on my boobs, I try to tell you what to do,
Get your boy-toy under control, free my soul, free my soul,
You gotta test the testes of love, so whip it out boy, and put on that glove,
Slave boy, why don't you listen to me?
'Cause I got a ton of money.
I'll make you love me with my big strong hands,
So do your duty and act like a man,
I made it through on my knees, Poppa, don't preach my pink undies,
I like to let it all hang out, I'm dancin', baby, 'cause I know how,
You gotta test the testes of love, so whip it out boy, and put on that glove,
Slave boy, why don't you listen to me? [Slave, slave boy]
'Cause I got a ton of money.
I'll make you love me with my big strong hands,
So do your duty and act like a man. [Be a man]
Make you a man with a slap of my hand,
Make you a man with a slap of my hand,
Make you a man with a slap...SLAP,
Gotta tie you up to get down
Gotta tie you up to get down
Gotta tie you up to get down
Gotta tie you up to get down [Peach pit baby]
Gotta tie you up...
Peach pit baby!
Slave boy, why don't you listen to me? [Slave, slave boy]
'Cause I got a ton of money.
I'll make you love me with my big strong hands,
So do your duty and act like a man. [Be a man]
Act like a man.
Act like a man, boy
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