Lyric discussion by xdvr 

It's about life, it's just as he says, the worse bit was ever being born, because then he wouldn't have had to have faced growing older and facing all the crap that grinds you down - i.e. other people. Either watching the people you care for grow old and die or just the rest of the world who are a bunch of bastards.

"I wish I'd never been born" just said in a rather more downbeat, wornout way.

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