Lyric discussion by FacebookLoginIsBroken 

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

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