| Regina Spektor – Daniel Cowman Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Ok, so I don't know about the actual meaning. But this is what its about in my head. The whole song is about the moment Daniel Cowman overdoses on Heroin. In the first verse, when she talks about the day that Daniel Cowman stops existing, its the day that he becomes addicted to Heroin, and starts to lose himself to his addiction. Daniel is is sober mind, and Heroin Boy is his mind on drugs, or his addiction. As he falls deeper and deeper into his addiction, he looses himself, and becomes Heroin Boy, and Daniel stops existing in his mind because he has changed so much. The second verse, "the premature ejeculation of his death sentence hit Daniel in the face", is the moment he realises that he is dying of overdose. Everything is hazy, but realizing that he is dying sort of wakes him up temporarily, and Daniel's sober mind comes back long enough to realize what is happening. " he stood up and then he sat back down another 2 times in a row" - he was conscious briefly on and off, fading back and forth into his drugged up haze. "Everything got real slow like a gunshot in the movies", he has a moment of actual clarity, and time seems to freeze. "He remembers Heroin boy walking through the door" (his addiction coming in to play) "bouncing off the walls... Getting ready to go in for a swim" (anxious to used, and getting ready to use). Then he starts remembering how he got there - "Heroin boy'd walk through the door and he was screaming... Like it was the end of the world" he was needing to use, and his addiction was screaming at him like the world would end if he didn't use soon. Then Heroin boy starts getting ready to do more "starts taking off his belt/pants/shoes, getting ready to go in for a swim". And his sober mind knows what will happen, he knows he is going to die if he does anymore " I said no, you're gonna drown, and he said no I can't drown". (Drowning being having a pulmonary edema from the overdose, which is much like drowning) but his drugged mind thinks he is invincible because he is destined to hang (he probably began using do to depression, or has thrown himself into depression, and he plans on killing himself to end it all) because, as the first verse says "the world should have ended... When he stopped existing", he doesn't want to live like this, he would rather his world end then live controlled by his addiction. But anyways - his drugged mind, Heroin Boy, insists that he can't die from overdose, because he is destined to kill himself, " now that we've got that straight, can't I just be left alone? I want to take a f**ing bath" - shut up sober mind - I'm going to use, I need to. The chorus is what he's thinking as he's dying. He has accepted his death, and knows that he is dying, so he wonders if this is finally over and he'll be able to do whatever he wants once he's gone. Super lengthy, sorry, but that's what I think XD |
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