well, knowing the band, the singer whose feelings are being portrayed in the song, and the girl he's talking about, let me shed some light. thecrowing83 is partly right..."It's quite clear that it's a destraught lover fighting his feelings about his ex with Good Ol' Alcohol and him wanting to get over it and see if he has it in himself to put the bottle down." When it says about another state, he was staying near his hometown to go to school, and she was leaving the hometown to go down to school in North Carolina. That is why he's fighting these feelings, because of the distance... and like I previously stated, he fights it by using alcohol.
well, knowing the band, the singer whose feelings are being portrayed in the song, and the girl he's talking about, let me shed some light. thecrowing83 is partly right..."It's quite clear that it's a destraught lover fighting his feelings about his ex with Good Ol' Alcohol and him wanting to get over it and see if he has it in himself to put the bottle down." When it says about another state, he was staying near his hometown to go to school, and she was leaving the hometown to go down to school in North Carolina. That is why he's fighting these feelings, because of the distance... and like I previously stated, he fights it by using alcohol.