This is a song completely about heroin use/abuse.. The beetle reference is the heroin powder that liquifies on a strip of tin foil, inhaled thru a tinfoil tube (toot) which is black and hard when at rest resembling a beetle.the bum ref is a lazy, do nothing person.. When he sings of she's a gun.. It's about the Russian roulette that it's both powerful and dangerous.. Get nothing done.. Is what eventually happens when u become a addict. She makes u come is the ref to heroin.. All male users ref to heroin in the female and when u become a addict heroin replaces your want or need for sex.. Makes u come is not literal, it's symbolic of the fact it had become his sex now.. Numb is a reference to emotionally numb which u become after long use..she'll suck your thumb is a ref to the calming ability of the drug. Nothing is wrong is a ref to the oblivion u feel in that nothing fazes you any longer and just rides by over ur head.i just slip away and Iam gone is a ref to the 'gouch' or 'nod' which accompany immediate use where user is placed in a hypnogocic state between sleep and wakefulness, alert in ur surroundings but asleep within urself.. If someone talks to u or u must move u can immediately get up or become vivid before once again slipping back into a serene state of relaxation.. To the outside observer the user appears asleep.
This is a song completely about heroin use/abuse.. The beetle reference is the heroin powder that liquifies on a strip of tin foil, inhaled thru a tinfoil tube (toot) which is black and hard when at rest resembling a beetle.the bum ref is a lazy, do nothing person.. When he sings of she's a gun.. It's about the Russian roulette that it's both powerful and dangerous.. Get nothing done.. Is what eventually happens when u become a addict. She makes u come is the ref to heroin.. All male users ref to heroin in the female and when u become a addict heroin replaces your want or need for sex.. Makes u come is not literal, it's symbolic of the fact it had become his sex now.. Numb is a reference to emotionally numb which u become after long use..she'll suck your thumb is a ref to the calming ability of the drug. Nothing is wrong is a ref to the oblivion u feel in that nothing fazes you any longer and just rides by over ur head.i just slip away and Iam gone is a ref to the 'gouch' or 'nod' which accompany immediate use where user is placed in a hypnogocic state between sleep and wakefulness, alert in ur surroundings but asleep within urself.. If someone talks to u or u must move u can immediately get up or become vivid before once again slipping back into a serene state of relaxation.. To the outside observer the user appears asleep.