Lyric discussion by cooperferguson 

Cover art for The Jitters lyrics by Dismemberment Plan, The

The moment I started listening to the lyrics, I immediately understood what they were saying. Everyone sentence and analogy, the delivery, the sound, everything comes down to an expression of deep depression. As someone who deals with this from day to day, this song is one of my favorites. The line "Nothing's wrong, I'm just fine, I realized I just don't like jokes" is everything you feel about the we feel in depression: absence of meaning, emptiness of motion.