Sweet Oblivion

This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Great lyrics, written about standing up for your existance and questioning a savior that we're quite unsure is there or not. Not to mention a girl's love

second line -

'once we were so at ease'

not

'once we were a tease'

you guys aint even close. Another one of the songs by the Deadlights is called "junk", another word for dope (heroin.) And this song, if you 'get' it is clearly about heroin.

Sweet oblivion is a term that lots of people have used to describe the rush and high from heroin and the life of bein addicted in general, but that aint the only reason im saying this.

Any heroin junkie will tell you that you spend most of your time in the bathroom. dopeheads are constantly sneaking off to do a shot/get high in the bathroom. The first thing you look for when you enter a house, restaurant/etc, is wheres the bathroom and does it have a good lock.

When he sings "meet me in the bathroom, and ill show you everything, and ill give you somethin that you can believe in" its about the moment of total alone-ness when its just you and the rush. For addicts heroin is the one thing that matters in a meaningless world, its somethin to believe in, the one thing that keeps you goin.

"Cuz when I lost my mind You're the only one I could turn to"

self explanatory here. When you cant handle life and everything is crazy heroin is the only thing that matters, the only thing that will soothe your pain away.

And the part that probably 'locks in' the meaning the most and really makes it clear is the lyrics at the end : "All this filth and disease that brought us all to our knees, but the faithful will keep holding on When all that they're living for is gone "

the life of addiction is a dirty, shitty, sad, hopeless, lotta times diseased existence, just a real scrapin-the-bottom way to live. All the filth and disease that brought us all to our knees is the downsides of the addicts life, all the negatives, the sickness, withdrawal, diseases, filth surrounding you, etc--but the "faithful" (the true addicts) keep holding on, keep using, they dont quit, they dont stop, they never will, they just keep goin, shootin dope til they die--even when they lose their families, friends, jobs, children, husband/wife, money, homes, cars, their dreams, hopes--everything that makes a life a life--all that theyre living for is gone--but they keep holdin on, keep using, never see the sun, just livin that waste of a life til they die.

With lyrics like that its not even something that you "could" interpret that way--its very obviously about heroin and addiction.