trasta, I totally agree. His addiction destroyed him, leaving him reaching for the drug, it sounds like he tried to get over it before, he says he should know better than to reach the edge, but he gets there anyway. He relapses into his habit and his humanity is destroyed. He can't even find anything civilized inside of himself. The song is clearly about an addiction. When he gets the drug, though, he feels nothing.... which leads me to believe that his drug of choice was heroin, because once heroin is treated with methadone, it no longer affects the body when taken. In short: this song is about a man who destroyed himself with heroin.
trasta, I totally agree. His addiction destroyed him, leaving him reaching for the drug, it sounds like he tried to get over it before, he says he should know better than to reach the edge, but he gets there anyway. He relapses into his habit and his humanity is destroyed. He can't even find anything civilized inside of himself. The song is clearly about an addiction. When he gets the drug, though, he feels nothing.... which leads me to believe that his drug of choice was heroin, because once heroin is treated with methadone, it no longer affects the body when taken. In short: this song is about a man who destroyed himself with heroin.