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The phrase is actually old Southern slang for losing one's temper or being at the end of one's rope. The meaning of the song is best put by an anonymous internet user: As it {the old Southern slang} pertains to the song, it's about an individual obsessed with another and whose feelings about how to approach that other person and how to deal with the whole awkward and rather uncomfortable situation leave the obsessed party to feel as though he is at the end of his rope.