I'll come down to get you high
Or maybe sing you a lullaby
Sing you to sleep, a sleep you'll never wake from
Sing you to coma so to speak

When I fall down I'll fall apart
Trade in my bike for a shopping cart
And beg change from a world that needs some
Like I need someone
So where are you my little needle?
The stack's been burned away
But I'm so inebriated that I cannot see
Three feet in front of me
Between the moon and you, lunacy is setting in

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

When I fall down I'll fall apart
Trade in my bike for a shopping cart
And beg change from a world that needs some
I'm tired of sleeping alone
So where are you my little needle?
The stack's been burned away
But I'm so inebriated that I cannot see
Three feet in front of me
Between the moon and you, lunacy is setting in


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    Why don't we just listen to this cres song and forget the whole thing? Jeez, you guys are violent.

    But also it seems that he refers to something he commonly does to make himself feel better:

    'But every night I water them back to life yeah every night I water them back to life.'

    That could be drugs, maybe it could be meaningless sex. That's what I think. And then also, he talks about being alone. Could drugs solve that? Would his 'soulmate' solve that?

    'I'm tired of sleeping alone So where are you my little needle?'

    He could be talking about looking for his literal needle, or he could possibly he talking about wanting to find his 'soulmate' in a world full of Ms. Wrongs/haystack.

    So, you could either take the song LITERALLY and say it's about doing drugs, or you could actually try to interpret the song and say they're all metaphors for love and how lonely this man feels without his 'soulmate'.

    Whatever you may think, could you people at least TRY to respect other people's opinions??

    myname_is_benon November 29, 2004   Link

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