It implies that despite being fatally pessimistic, the narrator may be fantasizing about suicide but not desiring it per se. It is especially the ad-lib of the final chorus, the request for someone to “get (him) out of here”, which insinuates that even though the vocalist may be depressed, he isn’t actually looking for a “final” solution.īut that said, it is once again obvious that he perceives his personal situation, indeed the world at large even, as being very much less than ideal. The vocalist will most likely live on. But that does not change the fact, at least as far as the immediate future appears, that he feels utterly powerless in terms of bettering his condition.
However, the third verse, as ambiguous as it is, leading into the final chorus does imply something.
self-poisoning, may actually be going down. The second verse also proceeds to suggest that such an instance, i.e. Then the chorus that follows is dominated by the line “no alarms and no surprises”. Now as far as the reference to “alarms” goes, it has been noted that fire alarms do in fact detect carbon monoxide. So that line can be interpreted as further proof that the vocalist is desiring to take his own life via this deadly gas, as in not wanting any alarm to be sounded or for anyone to intervene if he does. This is an expression that can definitely be taken as an allusion to suicide. The first verse, which is the most descriptive, concludes with the vocalist proclaiming that he will “take a quiet life”, which includes “a handshake of carbon monoxide”.
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