This one seems quite personal if you take in to account Billie Joe's recent on stage break down. It's like he's admitting that as he's getting older, he's going back to to the vices that plagued him as a younger man, which could have lead to what happened that night, and his subsequent admission to rehab. Maybe getting older is freaking him out and hitting the bottle is the only way he can cope.
This one seems quite personal if you take in to account Billie Joe's recent on stage break down. It's like he's admitting that as he's getting older, he's going back to to the vices that plagued him as a younger man, which could have lead to what happened that night, and his subsequent admission to rehab. Maybe getting older is freaking him out and hitting the bottle is the only way he can cope.