| Alkaline Trio – My Little Needle Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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it's totally about heroin. your other theories are interesting or whatever, but if you've ever been close to a heroin addict, you know what this song is about... "I'll come down to get you high Or maybe sing you a lullabye Sing you to sleep - a sleep you'll never wake from Sing you to coma so to speak" sing you to coma = heroin is kind of like a warm blanket of calmness, but if you OD, you'll go into a coma and die. "Trade in my bike for a shopping cart" - junkies will sell anything to be able to afford a heroin fix. often they end up homeless (shopping cart is metonymy for homelessness). "So where are you my little needle?" needle = shooting up "The stack's been burned away but I'm so inebriated that I cannot see three feet in front of me" enough said "Lately I've been feeling dead inside Like my guts have dried up and died But every night I water them back to life yeah every night I water them back to life" heroin tends to make you feel pretty dead. when you're addicted to it, you can't feel well unless it's in your system. otherwise you get really sick. so when he's shooting up, he's watering his dried up guts back to life... |
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| Mirah – Don't Die In Me Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I came on here to see what other people think that this song is trying to convey and was kind of disappointed that nobody wrote anything. my friend put this song on a mixtape for me as a birthday present and gave me the tape just a day before my boyfriend's best friend broke the news to me that my boyfriend who I had just recently gone on a break with had been dating another girl for a few weeks while I'd been across the country for summer and lying to me about a lot of the things that he had been doing. so when I hear this song I really can't think about anything else. to me, it's about being hurt by someone you love and losing all of your trust in them. but it seems like it's really a song about getting out of a really intense relationship and looking back on all of the destructive parts of it but still not wanting to let the person become just some meaningless memory. |
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