"It's about four different people. I had a family member who came back from World War II that killed himself. He slept with a .45 under his pillow for many years and then finally used it against himself. He just couldn't deal with the horrors that he had witnessed and had a part in. Both of my parents were in Vietnam. You come back from war carrying an incredible amount of baggage and guilt, I don't even pretend to understand, but I just hear about it. There are people in my life, like my grandmother, which one of those verses in that song refers to, that went out a happy woman - she had her struggles and painful things that she went through, but she died a happy woman with a lot of people that loved her. There are references to lots of people that I know and even myself at one point in the song."
matt skiba said this in an interview:
"It's about four different people. I had a family member who came back from World War II that killed himself. He slept with a .45 under his pillow for many years and then finally used it against himself. He just couldn't deal with the horrors that he had witnessed and had a part in. Both of my parents were in Vietnam. You come back from war carrying an incredible amount of baggage and guilt, I don't even pretend to understand, but I just hear about it. There are people in my life, like my grandmother, which one of those verses in that song refers to, that went out a happy woman - she had her struggles and painful things that she went through, but she died a happy woman with a lot of people that loved her. There are references to lots of people that I know and even myself at one point in the song."