| Nickelback – Just to Get High Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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(Note: I don't pay attention to names of individual members of bands, so expect non-name designations in 'speaker' and 'subject') "He was my best friend, I tried to help him, But he traded everything, for suffering, And found himself alone. I watched the lying, turn into hiding, With scars on both his lips, his fingertips, Were melted to the bone." The speaker in this song is recounting a tale about the subject, his best friend, who at worst, died from or, at best, suffered the experience of an OD on a heavy drug. From the description given ("his fingertips were melted to the bone") I presume the drug in question being Methamphetamine. [Chorus] "But I can still remember what his face looked like, When I found him in an alley in the middle of the night." The speaker has found the subject in an alley, possibly after being called to take the subject home, and the subject's facial expression has been burned into the speaker's memory. "Tell me what you know! Tell me what you gone and done now! Tell me what you know! Tell me what you gone and done now! Gun would do the trick, get it over with, You're better off, To take all you've got and burn it on the spot, Just to get high,(high)" In a rage, the speaker shouts at the subject to tell him what the drugs where and where they were obtained, and informing them of the speaker's disapproval by telling them "If you're going to kill yourself, just use a gun and get it over with!" and that they'd be better off burning the subject's entire stash. "Three days no sleeping, he gave up eating, He sold his mother's rings, she said nothing, And pretended not to know, He started stealing, to supply the feeling, Found out he pulled a knife, on someone's wife, And held it to her throat." The Past-tense here reinforces the possibility of death by overdose, but still does not seal it as the only possibility. The subject stopped eating or sleeping, further lending credence to the idea that the drugs in question are Methamphetamine. The subject was so addicted and desperate for a high he resorted to theft, and selling his mother's jewelery. The mother ignores it, likely deep in denial, and the subject even robbed an innocent passerby couple by threatening the wife's life with a knife against her throat. [Chorus] Tell me what did, where you gone and hid? Show me! What you really want, was it what you got? Slowly! Circling the drain, throw it all away, Just to get high, (high). High, oh! (High, high) High (High, high) High The subject has disappeared and/or died, and the speaker is metaphorically asking them where they went (be it place on Earth, Heaven, or Hell, or some other form of afterlife I'm not aware of), if the drugs were worth everything the subject has lost, and then pleads once more, for them to ditch the drug and come back, as his life is "circling the drain". "Tell me what you know! Tell me what you gone and done now! Tell me what you know! Tell me what you gone and done now! Gun would do the trick, get it over with, You're better off, To take all that you've got and burn it on the spot, Just to get high, (high). Tell me what did, where you gone and hid? Show me! What you really want, was it what you got? Slowly! Circling the drain, throw it all away, Just to get high Just to get high Circling the drain, throw it all away, Just to get high." A combination of both choruses, First repeating that if the subject wants to kill himself, a gun is much faster, and then once more asking where they went and if the drug was worth it. |
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| Nickelback – Just to Get High Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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(Note: I don't pay attention to names of individual members of bands, so expect non-name designations in 'speaker' and 'subject') "He was my best friend, I tried to help him, But he traded everything, for suffering, And found himself alone. I watched the lying, turn into hiding, With scars on both his lips, his fingertips, Were melted to the bone." The speaker in this song is recounting a tale about the subject, his best friend, who at worst, died from or, at best, suffered the experience of an OD on a heavy drug. From the description given ("his fingertips were melted to the bone") I presume the drug in question being Methamphetamine. [Chorus] "But I can still remember what his face looked like, When I found him in an alley in the middle of the night." The speaker has found the subject in an alley, possibly after being called to take the subject home, and the subject's facial expression has been burned into the speaker's memory. "Tell me what you know! Tell me what you gone and done now! Tell me what you know! Tell me what you gone and done now! Gun would do the trick, get it over with, You're better off, To take all you've got and burn it on the spot, Just to get high,(high)" In a rage, the speaker shouts at the subject to tell him what the drugs where and where they were obtained, and informing them of the speaker's disapproval by telling them "If you're going to kill yourself, just use a gun and get it over with!" and that they'd be better off burning the subject's entire stash. "Three days no sleeping, he gave up eating, He sold his mother's rings, she said nothing, And pretended not to know, He started stealing, to supply the feeling, Found out he pulled a knife, on someone's wife, And held it to her throat." The Past-tense here reinforces the possibility of death by overdose, but still does not seal it as the only possibility. The subject stopped eating or sleeping, further lending credence to the idea that the drugs in question are Methamphetamine. The subject was so addicted and desperate for a high he resorted to theft, and selling his mother's jewelery. The mother ignores it, likely deep in denial, and the subject even robbed an innocent passerby couple by threatening the wife's life with a knife against her throat. [Chorus] Tell me what did, where you gone and hid? Show me! What you really want, was it what you got? Slowly! Circling the drain, throw it all away, Just to get high, (high). High, oh! (High, high) High (High, high) High The subject has disappeared and/or died, and the speaker is metaphorically asking them where they went (be it place on Earth, Heaven, or Hell, or some other form of afterlife I'm not aware of), if the drugs were worth everything the subject has lost, and then pleads once more, for them to ditch the drug and come back, as his life is "circling the drain". "Tell me what you know! Tell me what you gone and done now! Tell me what you know! Tell me what you gone and done now! Gun would do the trick, get it over with, You're better off, To take all that you've got and burn it on the spot, Just to get high, (high). Tell me what did, where you gone and hid? Show me! What you really want, was it what you got? Slowly! Circling the drain, throw it all away, Just to get high Just to get high Circling the drain, throw it all away, Just to get high." A combination of both choruses, First repeating that if the subject wants to kill himself, a gun is much faster, and then once more asking where they went and if the drug was worth it. |
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| Nickelback – Just to Get High Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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