Loss Leader

This song's lyric is metaphorically reminiscent of someone being the "loss leader" of sorts, being valued less worth than actual price. So for whatever reason, the person swims out in a body of water, 'loosing sight of the shore' because they cannot take the infinite 'loss loop' of devastation that it brings. Water running down could either mean: water in lungs or after they make it back to shore, it drips off. Tasting bitter due to almost drowning, two muddy shoes walking out of the water. Far from home instigates that they might have had suicidal tendencies/intent, but couldn't go through with it. That they wanted to be far away when they offed theirself.

I think this song can be taken literally and metaphorically. Literally, a person swims out with intent to kill themselves from desperation each time they feel like a loss leader. Or metaphorically, that is how they feel inside each time they are used/abused, ect. So they do something to cleanse theirself.

As lastrites said, he gets the feeling of being "trapped deeply in a state of despair and desperation." Well, honestly, most of Codeine's songs give me this vibe. But I do agree with his view on merely repeating the same pattern of hopelessness. That is EXACTLY what this song is about regardless of any literal interpretation.

A loss leader is a marketing term, items are sold at prices below costs. The cheaper items draw more customers (usually for repeat visits), profits are made up on what consumers buy along with the loss leader. I don't know if this has anything to do with the concept for the song, a metaphor for something maybe. Boiled down, it could just mean something cheap and attractive, that draws you into a trap of sorts.

From the lyrics directly, I get the feeling of being trapped deeply in a state of despair and desperation. A feeling that you have no control over anything, that you're merely repeating the same pattern in hopelessness. "losing sight of the shore"

Loss Leader certainly is about the endless misery of depression. “Can’t take this loss loop anymore, anymore.” The concept of loss leader as mentioned by lastrites (intentionally lowering the cost of an item to draw in repeat purchases), gives another meaning to how it feels being dazed in a stupor everywhere you go. Self worth being reduced to an almost non-existent state of meaninglessness allows anyone who is approached to immediately understand the tension of angst; loss of desire or care to try. Purportedly before the sadness, these true, deep feelings of a somber outlook were guarded; only the closest can know, only the closest will allow oneself to open up. And anyway, life was better before. There was no need to open up about these feelings as those feelings did not exist to this extent. The utmost desire to have a connection of comfort eats away, needing everyone to know how oneself is felt-- if not spoken but in appearance. Everyone knowing, results in loss of value. There’s no purpose to be, since there is no worth (value) in having to be. As FadeToBlack123 points out, “Far from home, far from home,” is running away from what was home. What was safety. Get as far away from what was home as possible. The value and meaning of one as a person, is most valuable at home. The price is too high for whoever is at home to pay. It’s easier being with other people or things or activities than to pay the price of having to overcome the troubles at home. Ultimately, home will never go away as “the moon against my neck” is a reminder of that.

I like how FadeToBlack123’s compares drowning out at sea to running away from repressed emotions. Wailing as if to signal for someone in the sea, drifting away far down below, resurfacing on the shore. The shore, while somewhere to rest, doesn’t provide what is needed to have a meaningful existence. You have to go back to swim. It’s your choice to go back home or have water run down, run down, run down until you inevitably drown in your own self-hatred.