Would? [Album Version]

I feel like this is about addiction and how it subtly lures you into what you at first feel are higher states of consciousness. After a while though, you realize that you may have gone too far to recover on your own.

Know me broken by my master Teach thee on child, love hereafter

[Let me tell you about my addiction (master) and how it broke me] [I'll remind you that in the end, all there is, is love]

Into the flood again Same old trip it was back then So I made a big mistake Try to see it once my way

[I tried to recover, but relapsed. I thought it would be better/easier this time - please try to understand]

Drifting body, it's sole desertion Flying, not yet quite the notion

[I love the feeling of being high, but I still know that it is slowly killing me]

Into the flood again Same old trip it was back then So I made a big mistake Try to see it once my way

[Going back to the addiction]

Into the flood again Same old trip it was back then So I made a big mistake Try to see it once my way

[Going back to the addiction]

Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home? Have I gone? Left you here alone?

[This is self reflection - asking yourself whether or not you've taken your addiction too far and have no way of recovering on your own.]

Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home? Have I gone?

Left you here alone? If I would, could you?

[If i WOULD (try), COULD (you do it physically) - makes me think this was Layne referring to heroin and the horrible physical pain of recovery. A question to himself about whether or not he could stand it if he tried.]