Alibi

This song is simply amazing! I'm not exactly sure what this song means..and according to the documentary on the DualDisc of "Life In Slow Motion" David doesn't really know either. He does though, mention that it is not "Babylon II", although he does envison the same character as in Babylon on a Friday night, possibly Babylon..10 years later.

i love this song! my sister bought this album, but its spent most of its life in my CD player not hers. pure ace!

this song is so beautiful!!! I think it's about when you're in a relationship and the person your with always tries to make up excuses or "alibi's" for not being there when they should've or for whatever reason and how you get really upset but you love them and "eat the lie" every time. I could be totally off I don't know, but I love this song!

This is an incredible song, so powerful when he does it live. I initially thought that it was about a relationship, but on closer inspection it seems to be about cocaine use. Specifically the lines: "All night busz on a line It’s only blood on the rime Wrecks my head every time" All night buzz from doing lines, blood on the nose..." I did not see the interview with David talking about it being Babylon 10 years later, but that would make sense. In Babylon he talks about "chemicals running through my bloodstream" and the feel is happy and youthful- if one were to keep up substance abuse for 10 years I imagine the feeling would be more along the lines of this song.

^ I'm glad you're not a songwriter. "Home Phone?" Give me a break.

I think this song is definently about drug use...When you look at the film clip, it shows a girl growing up, she has the perfect life and everything you could wish for "shes an enfant, which means the spoilt and favoured child" - shes perfect in most peoples eyes. Then she started to taking drugs - where d'it all go wrong? - and he says he'll bite the hand that feeds her more, which I'd say is all the people who are selling her these drugs, he hates what they're doing to this perfect woman/girl

"Find the word Could break any spell that binds you"

• maybe this means like, if he could find the words, could he break her out of her drugged out state? I dont know if this is right, but its the first thing that came to my mind when I heard this song and saw the clip for it

Taylor

its about the use of coke imo. HIM using them. on a come down, woundering whats went wrong that hes resorted to drugs and being childish/ that or hes trying to talk to himself when he was younger using drugs (not saying he ever did/does just the meaning of the song imo)

when i first heard it i thought he was singing, "hung like birds on a line, its only blood on the rhine." hahaha anyway i love his music! love disappearing world!

The relationship of this song to Babylon is not unlike that of the relationship of U2's Running to Stand Still to Bullet the Blue Sky, in my mind. While I personally doubt that these songs are about drug use specifically (though his Friday night enfant is never specified, and though the evidence toward the song referring to cocaine is strong), it's clear that there is a burst of some level of emotion at the beginning of the story and a level of coming-down at the end.

I always assumed that the "chemicals running through [his] bloodstream" are adrenalin, or caffeine, or perhaps alcohol, or maybe not chemicals at all but instead the personification of the rush of emotion that comes all at once in these sorts of situations.