I started A Joke-Bee Gees

This song,"I Started a Joke" is supposedly about someone who has done or said something horribly wrong, which results in social alienation...Social alienation refers to an individual's estrangement from traditional community and others in general.

Lyrics:

I started a joke, which started the whole world crying,
But I didnt see that the joke was on me, oh no.
I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing,
Oh, if Id only seen that the joke was on me.

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,
And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that Id said.

Til I finally died, which started the whole world living,
Oh, if Id only seen that the joke was on me.