Sugar in Your Gas Tank Lyrics

Lyric discussion by proustitute 

Cover art for Sugar in Your Gas Tank lyrics by Less Than Jake

I believe he's speaking about his frustrations with the troubled world around him, and how his own thoughts plague him.

He is incapable of ignoring the chaos around him and pretending everything is just okay, and in this way, he can't be sit back and be blissful in ignorance, so instead he has to try and deal with his conflicted thoughts about and frustrations with life.