anonymous December 14th, 2005 08:19PM  
This song is very macabre, in the style Alkaline Trio loves so much. It's basically about obsession, bitterness, and the hurt feelings that come out of the end of any relationship. Since this particular relationship was pretty twisted to begin with, basically the singer is saying, "Since you've already broken my heart and near driven me insane by what you've done, why don't you just come kill me and get it over with? I know that's what you obviously want to do, because you hate me." It's about a kind of wild and crazy love/hate relationship between two people which has come to a close but isn't really over. She "took me [him] hostage", holding him in the relationship, and made a lot of demands that he couldn't meet (maybe to be a better person, to do the things she wanted, etc.) and then when she saw he couldn't meet her expectations she "cut off... [his] fingers... one by one," in that she slowly and painfully cut off their relationship.

You could also say the narrator is obsessed over/stalking her because of the whole line "I shat the bed and lay there in it, thinking of you, wide awake for days," but what this probably really means is that he feels like he screwed things up with this girl and now he can't get her off his mind.
"love for fire" is a metaphor of sorts, because he loves this girl but somehow he always gets burned (and perhaps the same could be said of the girl, but we don't see her point of view)

anonymous November 14th, 2006 08:14PM  
I think this song is about someone thinking about suicide, but not because he's sad or such, just because he wants the girl he's obsessed about to feel guilty (I shat the bed and laid there in it
thinking of you wide awake for days). He's kinda creepy, so the girl is afraid of him and doesn't want to have a relationship with him anymore- so ends running away (I don't blame you for walking away i'd do the same if I saw me). He states that the girl did what she wanted with him then threw him away (you took me hostage and made your demands I couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers, one by one). So by commiting suicide, burning himself (i've got a book of matches I've got a can of kerosene), he wants her to feel bad about going away. He's not sad because she dumped him, he's angry about it.

anonymous November 16th, 2006 07:43PM  
Suicide? That's stupid, not to sound like an ass though I probably just did...sorry, but I don't think its that.

brielle April 29th, 2007 10:09PM  
I agree with the 2nd. person.

kickass song

pleezedazpiss January 23rd, 2010 03:30AM  
I think it's about trying to kick heroin, (shat the bed layed there in it wide awake for days) Heroin withdraws are like the stomach flu (swear it's not contagious) also the part about cutting off his fingers would mean that he would no longer be able to shoot up. When he says to slit his throat ect. he means to kill him would be the only way to stop him from using. The love for fire is based on his idea to burn the both of them alive because an when an addict has no drugs it's as though they are commiting suicide and since the person he's singing to has in a sense asked him to do the same, he has no got the idea to burn them both alive a metaphore for the flames of hell.