Do you think this song is a joke or serious?

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

When I was in high school I basically assumed it obviously wasn't a joke because the genre was SO SERIOUS but I'm reading the lyrics today and reading the lyrics today and I'm like, uh....But then again there's the ending which is serious mood whiplash of it's a joke. So...

I wanna be in a motorcycle gang
Green and mean and fcked up all the time
Picture me on the back of a Harley
Leather-clad and bad and driving fifty-five

I'm going nowhere
I'd rather go somewhere instead

I want to see things I'll never get to see
Foreign bronze, klingons, naked girls with purple eyes
Yeah, look at me, sad and low and lonely
Dead-end job, a slob, and fcked up all the time

I'm going nowhere
I'd rather go somewhere instead

I'm going nowhere
I'd rather go somewhere instead

I'm gonna blow a hole through the back of my head

Don't cry, don't cry
When I, when I
Say goodbye
And don't cry
Don't cry

[dead0man]

if the dude killed himself since writing this it wasn't a joke, otherwise, it's hard to tell

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

if the dude killed himself since writing this it wasn't a joke, otherwise, it's hard to tell

He didn't.