anonymous November 14th, 2008 11:20PM  
I believe It does have something to do with death, and he is debating weather he believes in god or not hints ""Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there but I wouldn't hold my breath" And I also think he might be a Catholic because he thinks whoever died went to purgatory, hints "Collected my belongings and I left the jail./Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell." B/C Catholics believe that if you die and are not ready for heaven you go to purgatory somewhere where you get right then eventually get ready to end up n heaven.

anonymous December 2nd, 2008 12:56AM  
well, the bits about the jail, i think are his own personal commentaries on his own experience in jail and how it brought on this close connection to life and the small experiences you miss out on if you allow them to pass you by. but i get confused at the line explaining "when time and life shook hands and said goodbye" as something they missed. this lyric sounds like the moment where time lets go of life, but isn't that death? how could someone miss that if they are, in fact, dying? unless if i'm getting that completely wrong that is..

anonymous April 1st, 2009 08:19AM  
the song goes in reverse time, starting after the person's death and working back. "and maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both live again" ovbiously refers to after the person's dead. "and maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both grow old" is before the death, along with "the more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind" is before the death but there's no telling what time in relation it is to the growing old reference. he doesn't believe in catholism, no. he doesn't. but he's saying that for the other person's sake that their beliefs were right so they have somewhere to go now that they're dead. i haven't seen the video, and i wouldn't let it effect any opinion on the song meaning.

anonymous September 14th, 2009 12:45PM  
I think that "when time and life shook hands and said goodbye" is refering to when life ends. When your life leaves, time also leaves you, afterlife.

anonymous March 1st, 2010 11:07AM  
It's about his friend who committed suicide...instead of grieving he's venting....his friend thought he would be sorry that he's gone but instead Hes angry that he gave up...this is his memoir saying fuck you, mate