| Sublime – Pool Shark Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song means alot to me as a RECOVERING heroin addict... thats right, its not a death sentence, it just feels like it. heroin was a lie that told me that some day its gonna be alright, when the truth it was the reason why everything was not alright. i used to want to play the tortured artist pity-needing junky, but now i realise that self destruction via a needle is a cop out, not something to be pitied. i did it for years. i know. i know the taste in the back of your throat. i know the warmth. i know the torture of sickness. and i also know that in the long run you use the choice to use. that's not a death sentence though, but people like me cannot do it alone.. as long as we refuse to ask for help, we will be trapped. Lying in my plastic bed: jail and treatment use plastic to catch uncontrolable body fluids from detox Thinking how things wern't so cool to me: realising the lie that everything will be alright with junk My baby likes to shoot pool: an ironic view of how he likes to shoot things also I like lying naked in my bedroom: Dope makes you feel really warm and really cozy.. Clothing optional Tying off that dinosaur tonight: Tying off to do dope, and try and play out a dream that has long died out and gone extinct Used to be so cool: he's past the 'glamour phase'.. I.e. he doesnt shoot to get high, he shoots to keep from getting sick I can shake: tremors are awful when your dope sick.. it is called kicking because they get so bad your arms and legs kick in the air by themselves But I cant bleed: an addict knows that the needle is in his vein when he pulls back and blood shoot up into the barrel of the syringe.. this statement relays the frustration every addict feels missing vein after vein trying to get well. take it away but i want more and more: the addict becomes to people. the one who realises he is dying and wants to stop, and the one who loses hope and accepts his death. at this point in an addicts life, he will seek help or die. one day im gonna lose the war: meaning hes not oblivious to the meaning of the statement above. If you are addicted to heroin, ask for help.. i dont reccomend getting on done, like i did.. the detox is 10x worse, but if its gonna keep you from putting a needle in your arm, do it! good luck to all of you, and good luck to me. just for today im not gonna be bradley anymore. |
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