That's exactly the meaning I have associated with this song....and in fact, if you have the special edition of Guster's "Keep It Together" CD, they do a very comical, yet very enlightening spin-off of their own song "Amsterdam." Within it, Ryan sings as if he's high, there are many images of mushrooms, and the whole thing itself is very colorful and something you would imagine a person to experience when high on drugs. So to me, it is clear that this song is very much related to drug addiction.
That's exactly the meaning I have associated with this song....and in fact, if you have the special edition of Guster's "Keep It Together" CD, they do a very comical, yet very enlightening spin-off of their own song "Amsterdam." Within it, Ryan sings as if he's high, there are many images of mushrooms, and the whole thing itself is very colorful and something you would imagine a person to experience when high on drugs. So to me, it is clear that this song is very much related to drug addiction.