As You Were Lyrics

Lyric discussion by dstav 

Cover art for As You Were lyrics by Alkaline Trio

This song is about alcoholism and matt realizing that his drinking is out of control. It has nothing to do with a relationshipe He comes to this conclusion because of the girl (mostly likely a friend whom he had no romantic feelings for) who was just "passing through" his life but noticed his problem when "she slipped and slid on my gut spill" which is probably a reference to violent vomiting that's brought about from partying (not to say that she physically slipped in his gut spill but rather a metaphor that for the fact that she could not ignore his alcoholism much like it would be impossible to ignore slipping on someone's guts.) She brought this problem to his attention and he finally accepts it, realizing what his life's become.(Stale as a 3 dale half beer..., I'd do anything to erase the past nine years of my life) Keeping that in mind, the line is "my liver too soon to abort" not "all liberty too soon to abort"