racart December 19th, 2008 01:39AM  
This song, in general, is about how hate keeps people going. It also says how, even with a lack of compassion, and desire, we, as humans with souls continue to breed, and live off of hate, and as 'dead' as we are inside, we don't think of it as a problem, or we just ignore it. All the people who breed that hate, who feel that anger also feel guilt, and weakness:
"Hatred keeps me alive
Angriness keeps me alive
Weakness keeps me alive
Guilt keeps me alive"

and that those people who do so, are "at the bottom".
The "shit" adds up at the bottom and keeps you dead on the inside. Shit is hatred I think, the hatred adds up, and if you let it get to you, it will leave you dead inside.

"My piss and moans are the fuel that sets my head on fire"
You fuel your own hatred, with your complaining, and thus fueling your suffering.

"And I have swallowed the poison you feed me
But I survive on the poison you feed me"

I swallow the "shit" you give me, but it helps me survive, just like the "living" off of hate.

"If I let you, you would make me destroy myself
In order to survive you, I must first survive myself"

If I were to let you continue to cause this hate within me, instead of brushing it off, I will destroy myself. Therefore, I must survive the hatred you cause me to have.

"I can sink no further, and I cannot forgive you
There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you
Ive gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain"

I can't sink past the "bottom". There is no choice but to get rid of you, and the hate, to "live" again. I've expanded my hate further, by hating even more.

"I will use my mistakes against you, there's no other choice
Im shameless now, I'm nameless now, I'm nothing now, I'm no one now"

Yet again, referring to using the hate against you, to get rid of the hate. I am basically nothing because of my hate, it has caused be to be "dead" inside.

That's just what I think.
:)

JohnnyLoco June 28th, 2009 01:43AM  
This song I feel is about how Maynard has been taking everyones hatred and shit all the time and he is finally is fed up and is saying that he is not going to take anymore. "Too much, too late" meaning that he has been pushed too far and he has had enough.

tlc09274 January 25th, 2010 02:59AM  
Hitting rock bottom with an addiction. The realization that to survive the addiction you have to survive yourself; survive the need you feel unfulfilled without it.