I think it's a very downbeat song about having personal feelings that contrast greatly with what is expected from others - feeling very depressed about life in general, being penniless, yet having a gun at hand (so maybe in the USA) or maybe that's just symbolic of his own personal feelings of self-destruction, stuck in front of the TV, wanting something better but not being able to achieve that and therefore feeling it would be better to die, sarcastically comparing his own feelings with society's (and particularly maybe other men's) expectation that you should 'prove yourself'.
I think it's a very downbeat song about having personal feelings that contrast greatly with what is expected from others - feeling very depressed about life in general, being penniless, yet having a gun at hand (so maybe in the USA) or maybe that's just symbolic of his own personal feelings of self-destruction, stuck in front of the TV, wanting something better but not being able to achieve that and therefore feeling it would be better to die, sarcastically comparing his own feelings with society's (and particularly maybe other men's) expectation that you should 'prove yourself'.