| Skinny Puppy – Spasmolytic Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[sanctuary92:23864] dying from overdose after you've become a slave, is what I meant at the very end there, when he smashes through the window | |
| Skinny Puppy – Spasmolytic Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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lmfao at the people who think this is about smoking cigarettes. that's hilarious. as a former heroin addict, this song is 100% about heroin and life in the heroin underground, which is an extremely scary, dirty, yet alluring and seductive thing. downtown (short for downtown brown) is slang for heroin, as it's usually bought downtown. particles aching, the sickness when you don't have heroin makes you feel like every particle in your body is hurting so fucking bad. take a shot and hide, I mean that's pretty obvious, you shoot up your dope and go hide away from others so nobody asks why you're nodding and because heroin makes most people not want to be around others, it's very secretive and isolated. subway slamdance, well slam is a term we use to describe when you inject the heroin into your vein. I kinda feel like this is sort of a metaphor for when you are hiding in public shooting up while standing, and you kinda fidget around which may be where he came up with "slamdance". not sure but it makes sense to me. stale mattress, again very obvious. lots of heavy drug users or drug houses have this dirty stale mattress on the floor that you nod out on. or it could even mean how when you're sick and sweating like crazy and it makes your mattress all stale and gross. I could literally break this entire song down. he alludes to the life of a heroin addict, the drug, the places you hang out, people you hang out with... it's a really amazing piece of art. Even in the music video, the woman who has brown hair (brown alluding to heroin) keeps telling him to come to her, and no matter what he cannot grasp her (chasing the dragon). it shows all these people telling him they need him to pay his bills, but he has no money because heroin took it all. he's strapped to the chair and the brown haired lady (which is heroin) is taking his money from him and making him into a slave. then at the very end the other person who made him into a slave is not only heroin, but himself. which is EXTREMELY true and real, because it's not just the drug's fault, it's our fault for hurting so bad that we needed heroin to help us. then he stands up and tries to catch the heroin lady one more time and ends up flying through the window which I think means dying. |
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