The spoken word tells of various incidents from childhood, including refusing to talk, expulsion from school for disruptive behaviour and parents arguing at Christmas.
The sung chorus featured a highly controversial line, "Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it".
This led to the song being banned by some UK radio stations (with the exception of Xfm who gave it some daytime airplay) and MTV.
[2] The chorus was featured in a series 3 episode of Monkey Dust and in the season 1 episode 19 of the Gilmore Girls titled "Emily in Wonderland", and consequently featured on the Gilmore Girls soundtrack, Our Little Corner of the World.
The song was released in the U.S. shortly after the Columbine massacre, this led to the line "kill yourself" being played backwards on the U.S.