The song starts as the boy is a child. Attention seeking to the detriment of his sister. The acting up is followed by chastisement. It\'s most likely the loss of his father since it started so young.\n\nThe song progresses through other examples of directionless anger and drug abuse. Fixin and shooting in the dark ending with his eventual death in the overdose in the bath.\n\nThe father probably committed suicide as the narrator here comments about the protagonist blaming a system for his death. it might not be true but it lends to that idea and is another example of misplaced or directionless anger.
The song starts as the boy is a child. Attention seeking to the detriment of his sister. The acting up is followed by chastisement. It\'s most likely the loss of his father since it started so young.\n\nThe song progresses through other examples of directionless anger and drug abuse. Fixin and shooting in the dark ending with his eventual death in the overdose in the bath.\n\nThe father probably committed suicide as the narrator here comments about the protagonist blaming a system for his death. it might not be true but it lends to that idea and is another example of misplaced or directionless anger.