The song documents the process of recovering from ANY type of relationship. It's not about a breakup, not at all. It's about a woman backstabbing him, a best friend maybe doing him wrong, the fact is he hates this person now, thus the title (the rat) and he was in the process of moving on, until that phone call came in. You think that you'd be pretty upset if your cheating g/b friend called you to borrow money, this after they had just cheated on you.
The song documents the process of recovering from ANY type of relationship. It's not about a breakup, not at all. It's about a woman backstabbing him, a best friend maybe doing him wrong, the fact is he hates this person now, thus the title (the rat) and he was in the process of moving on, until that phone call came in. You think that you'd be pretty upset if your cheating g/b friend called you to borrow money, this after they had just cheated on you.