Not Turning Off

A) This song is incredible - Britt Daniels is simply the coolest lead of any rock band out right now, and nobody seems to know it. At the end, with those short-burst screams - so cool. B) This song is about drugs. It's about 2 people who take drugs together. "She's gone in a word, and tanked-up" is clearly a reference to being intoxicated. Ephedrine's synthetic derivatives are amphetamine and methamphetamine. "There's something about, I'm not the only / who can't sleep at all". That refers to how they're both "tanked up". When you're on meth it's a very mechanical feeling, like your body is a machine (I've never taken it, but that' what I've heard). Here's what one meth user had to say about it : "It was like all of the switches in my body and in my brain felt like they finally got turned on." (Check out the link to that quote here: http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392428) So yeah, clearly he's "turned on" and "not turning off". I don't think that the quote "your can tastes like tin, aluminum" refers to a beer in a can. I think he's talking about the girl he's with, how she's like a robot, or a machine. "Connect to me" he says. Obviously a sexual reference (meth increases libido, incidentally). Ok, that's it from me.

Well it's definitely about insomnia, forced or otherwise. Ephedrine is a drug, a stimulant. Aluminum taste is from the beer can he's drinking from. The machine reference I think is vague on purpose. WHAT machine? I can think of a few, but I think that reference is meant to be eerie & mysterious.

I agree with you, person from texas before me. this man is highly underrated, sadly.

This doesn't have any song meaning, but for some reason I think of the Nightmare on Elm Street films when this song plays.

Oh honey, oh please, it's just a machine. The third film where that one girl walks up to the television and freddy slams her into it.

The can tastes like tin, aluminum. Just reminded me of a scene in one of the films where a girl is mixing diet coke and coffee to stay awake.

And I don't want to miss such an American scene reminds me of the guy in the first movie who falls asleep to the television.

and of course

Not turning off is just not going to sleep.

This is pointless, not the point of the song, just some connections.