Low Place Like Home

To me, this song is about an alchoholic parent. I'm not sure if that's what Kelly intended it to reflect, but it makes perfect sense to me. Maybe you have to be in that kind of situation to see it, but my mother is a severe alchoholic/manic depressive. This morning, she took the car and just left around 1 AM, completely drunk, and nobody knew where she was until almost 8 PM the next day, when she called and said she was at our old house (it's empty and we still own it).

"You talked it over from your bedroom throne" It reminds me of how my mom would stay in bed for literally months.. and just drink and cry...

"You fall all over, in your small town heels Catching hold of nothing, like your one armed man Treat your life like a tragedy, self inflict abuse Treat your life like a tragedy, precious else to choose Crucify yourself, I hope you find yourself In a low place like home" Aw man. This is the part of the song that I just broke down crying at. My mother summed up in a manner of lines... I took it as referring to how when you're drunk, you stumble all over the place looking for help, but you can never find it.. And my mother's biggest problem was her self-pity. That's why she drank so much. She felt so damn sorry for herself, and everything she went through, that she didn't even want to get up in the mornings - she treated her life like a tragedy. The "low place like home" lyric... that immediately brings to mind my mother hiding in our old house.

I probably shouldn't have put my personal life here, but this song means so much to me, and I thought it'd be easier if I explained why. The Sneaker Pimps were amazing with Kelly and they need her back.