This is a powerful song, and it basically deals with how the singer's father didn't have a father of his own, and had to constantly drag the old man out of bars.
The father worked hard to build his character so that the singer could have a father himself, and the childhood his father before him was robbed of. He had to grow up too fast.
It could also be a song about straight edge because the youngest kid, the narrator, wants to set himself apart from his grandfather and be a better person, like his dad.
This is a powerful song, and it basically deals with how the singer's father didn't have a father of his own, and had to constantly drag the old man out of bars.
The father worked hard to build his character so that the singer could have a father himself, and the childhood his father before him was robbed of. He had to grow up too fast.
It could also be a song about straight edge because the youngest kid, the narrator, wants to set himself apart from his grandfather and be a better person, like his dad.