It's a Metaphor, Fool Lyrics

Lyric discussion by slinkinator13 

Cover art for It's a Metaphor, Fool lyrics by Say Anything

Wasn't he mentally ill for a while?? Like bipolar or something? I think this song is a metaphor (ha) referring to his mental illness as something that was destroying him and the band but now he's over it (all you are to me is dead skin) and he's got control of it (you're safe inside my fist) but i don't get the 16 thing....

He is bipolar that is his "mental illness" but he went crazy and lost his mind and ran around new york city talking to strangers that he thought he knew.

i think this song is a metaphor for his drug-induced bipolar episode. he became really addicted to pot and stuff while writing the first disc of ...is a real boy and then all the consequences hit at once and he sort of lost it. "love like no other" refers to addiction, "got your scars on my wrist" refers to how he was killing himself with drugs. the chorus is saying that hes done with drugs and alcohol and that theyre just "dead skin." i feel like that middle part from "so heres the plan...our own apartment" means that max somehow...

yeah that whole new york thing: "The breakdown centered around a mockumentary discussed by Bemis and producer Tim O'Heir. Bemis' state of mind led him to believe he was being secretly filmed for the mockumentary; the situation culminated in him walking the streets of Brooklyn thinking he was being filmed while encountering friends (who were actually strangers)." and a later breakdown... "October 3, 2005, Bemis had another breakdown; this time, it involved harassing children, spitting out food at an outdoor cafe, spending a "half-hour pouring a bowl of soup onto the floor, one spoonful at a time," engaging in a street fight,...