wow... this song reminds me a lot of what my ex and i were going through for the last few months we were together... constant fighting, one of us would get really ticked off at the other and threaten/attempt to break it off, and the other one would turn semi-suicidal (talk about doing it, but neither of us were ever willing to actually carry through on it) because even though staying together was just a world of pain, we were both somehow convinced that breaking up would hurt even more, and that given time, it could be fixed... eventually, i got sick of it, realized it wasn't going to get fixed, and said that i wanted to just break it off, and for whatever reason, she agreed. we're still close friends though...
anyways, as some people have said, the song isn't actually about killing yourself to get back at the girl for breaking up with him, it's about being incredibly depressed over the break-up and threatening suicide in the hope they'll get back together with you. the bouncy-happy tune and the somewhat bubbly bassline serve as a counterpoint to the depressing lyrics to indicate that the threats are empty and shouldn't be taken seriously. not to mention the occasional sillyness... "I see you've sent my letters back and my LP records and they're all scratched"
wow... this song reminds me a lot of what my ex and i were going through for the last few months we were together... constant fighting, one of us would get really ticked off at the other and threaten/attempt to break it off, and the other one would turn semi-suicidal (talk about doing it, but neither of us were ever willing to actually carry through on it) because even though staying together was just a world of pain, we were both somehow convinced that breaking up would hurt even more, and that given time, it could be fixed... eventually, i got sick of it, realized it wasn't going to get fixed, and said that i wanted to just break it off, and for whatever reason, she agreed. we're still close friends though...
anyways, as some people have said, the song isn't actually about killing yourself to get back at the girl for breaking up with him, it's about being incredibly depressed over the break-up and threatening suicide in the hope they'll get back together with you. the bouncy-happy tune and the somewhat bubbly bassline serve as a counterpoint to the depressing lyrics to indicate that the threats are empty and shouldn't be taken seriously. not to mention the occasional sillyness... "I see you've sent my letters back and my LP records and they're all scratched"