This song is clearly about Doug being depressed and thinking about comitting suicide.
"To shut down the whole system at the spine"
He's trying to simplify the act of stabbing himself.
"It's only a stab in a wet paper bag"
But in the end he realizes that thinking about suicide and feeling sorry for himself is just stupid. And singing about wanting to do it is wrong.
"I wrote a song. It was slow and long. I wrote the words and the music wrong"
So he speeds the song up and shifts it into a brighter mood with a nice and upbeat guitar solo to state that life goes on after all and that he'll get over it.
"But life goes on"
This song is clearly about Doug being depressed and thinking about comitting suicide. "To shut down the whole system at the spine"
He's trying to simplify the act of stabbing himself. "It's only a stab in a wet paper bag"
But in the end he realizes that thinking about suicide and feeling sorry for himself is just stupid. And singing about wanting to do it is wrong.
"I wrote a song. It was slow and long. I wrote the words and the music wrong"
So he speeds the song up and shifts it into a brighter mood with a nice and upbeat guitar solo to state that life goes on after all and that he'll get over it. "But life goes on"
Possibly one of the greatest bts songs