I think this is about committing suicide in San Francisco. The first verse is fairly depressed and hopeless (Things are so much harder now/no matter how i try): life sucks and i can't fight it. Then the persona (the character singing--as opposed to the actual singer performing) mentions what sucks (Junkyard days, toxic waste, unrequited love). The second verse further describes the persona's feelings of despair and powerlessness> "Voices in my head are telling me that I am lost/
Pills and alcohol are making me a lost cause." The chorus, however, is the real clue. "I can see the ledge now/Golden Gate is falling from behind/(?)/." The persona sees the ledge of the Golden Gate bridge and jumps off--which is why it is "falling from behind"--and says that this kind of life is pathetic and not worth suffering through ("Well if you call this living,/I just wanna hang my head and cry.").
I think this is about committing suicide in San Francisco. The first verse is fairly depressed and hopeless (Things are so much harder now/no matter how i try): life sucks and i can't fight it. Then the persona (the character singing--as opposed to the actual singer performing) mentions what sucks (Junkyard days, toxic waste, unrequited love). The second verse further describes the persona's feelings of despair and powerlessness> "Voices in my head are telling me that I am lost/ Pills and alcohol are making me a lost cause." The chorus, however, is the real clue. "I can see the ledge now/Golden Gate is falling from behind/(?)/." The persona sees the ledge of the Golden Gate bridge and jumps off--which is why it is "falling from behind"--and says that this kind of life is pathetic and not worth suffering through ("Well if you call this living,/I just wanna hang my head and cry.").