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Destroyer – Notorious Lightning Lyrics 8 years ago
This song is about his struggle to be a self actualized man. One of the stumbles being his cocaine habit.
"Now I'm facing twenty years for every night I tried to ingest the snow so lightly, huh?
You simply couldn't put down the black book"
Snow being the coke. The black book being the list of drug dealers.

"And you're living off what the government granted you" means he's collecting social assistance money (or Employment Insurance in Canada, where he's from).

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