Thanks to the joy of Angelfire, there's an old ugly webpage still on the internet with a couple song interpretations straight from Filter themselves right over here. It's only worth noting because, and this is probably due to Robert Patrick's endless clamoring for fame, there was that whole big to-do over Trent Reznor and Robert Patrick having some falling out, and on the page Patrick clearly says this song isn't about Trent Reznor.

The story as I knew it was this: Robert Patrick was from back east and he wanted to get out to California, and he also liked Nine Inch Nails and ended up playing with the band around the time Trent Reznor wanted to move out to California. Robert Patrick came out here on Reznor's back, played with the band for a while, and finding out that Reznor wasn't exactly looking for collaborators on Nine Inch Nails left Patrick with a desire to start his own band. So, Patrick jumped ship, and I guess parting wasn't sweet sorrow for the either of them, and up until a couple years ago everyone was like, "OMG, if Robert Patrick and Trent Reznor are in the same room bad things will happen!"

All in all, stupid. Just like how Hey Man, Nice Shot isn't about Kurt Cobain.

I like to pretend that Filter only ever released one album, Short Bus, and one song with The Crystal Method (off that Spawn soundtrack that amounted to one band fucking around with some other band's song and never really resulted in any artful collaboration). Everything after this has sucked complete balls. I'm no Filter fan, but I think Short Bus is pretty much excellent all around. Pure mid-90's industrial rock!