Ricochet

If the song was written the day Cobain died, then it can't have anything to do with Nirvana because Cobain was found dead three days later, so obviously they didn't know Cobain was dead the day they wrote the song.

The thing that struck me was the possibility that this song is about the aftermath of a woman who left a man for someone else, obviously leaving him bitter and making him think she's a heartless bitch, which she very well may have been. But everything's going right in the life of the heartless bitch, and the guy, whose only wrong was loving her, is falling to pieces.

Just my thoughts.

Could be just me inferring my own feelings and dramas into the song but kind of comes across as dealing with a narcissistic, emotionally manipulative person. No matter how you speak to them it's a fucking shit fight and they are always right in their eyes, never seeing any wrong doing. It gets to the point where you rather get shot in the face than having to talk to them because no matter what you say you're an asshole. "no reason, no explanation so play the violins" when you say something that makes them upset when it wasn't even something upsetting in the first place, so they do the "woe is me you hurt my feelings" thing. "One day the will come up and you'll come up empty again" Things are going good and they have no reason to cause drama, they'll find something to cause drama about. And who'll be laughing then? People seeing through the shit the person is causing and they have become the joke, instead of the people manipulated, because joke was on them to start with for feeding into the narcissist's crap.

I was married to a sociopath.

He kept hurting me and everyone around me. Nothing seemed to ever come back around. Karma never happened. I finally left him... He remarried and started abusing his next wife.

"You can laugh at me when it misses you "

The few times I tried to defend myself, it would ricochet back on to me. I take this quite literally. The sociopath won and he haunts me forever.

wow the 1st and last guy are complete fuckwads....have you even heard anything prior to KFAD? learn to swim

To me, the basic message seems to be "I know you're better than me, but you don't need to be a douchebag about it."

It's always funny until someone gets hurt... And then it's just hilarious! Bill Hicks quote, nice. :) If u dunno who is he u should find out ^^

Interesting on the Cobain suicide theory. I don't buy it (but I don't buy any "coincidences" at all usually), but that's at least a unique interpretation.

Personally, I think it's about Karma or what have you in general without reference to a specific situation. The beauty of FNM songs is that they leave a lot up to individual interpretation and become very personal for that very reason.

I think the pre-chorus (one day the wind will come up...) is about being rejected by a love interest, and the hopes that later she/he will get back to you only to see you've found someone better, and you'll reject her/him back and have the last laugh.

this song is about being impotent. That's what it seems like Patton is singing about. He can't get it up and he can't explain it and his significant other isn't very understanding about it. No matter, one day "the wind will come up", obviously with someone else and he'll have his revenge then.