Hang On To Your IQ Lyrics

Lyric discussion by boomerstyle 

Cover art for Hang On To Your IQ lyrics by Placebo

I always thought this was about drugs. The first two verse bit and then the rest of the song. When he starts singing "Legs eleven..." I thought from then on it referred to all the shit he's gotten into since he started using. "Hang on to your IQ, to your ID" is almost like a warning to not get involved in this world and if you do to keep your ID because the author himself has lost it and now is pretty much numb to many things.

I think its about a guy who loves to get fucked up and have sex but its also because he is lonely, insecure and trapped in the world of drugs and sex.

The first verse- he was in a relationship then went and fucked a chinese masseuse ("chinese masseuse comes between us) who had pills, condoms, lube and a vibrator. Or it could also be a threesome with a chinese masseuse (come between us, two lubes, two condoms. Regardless, he is telling us of some of his experiences, which he also does in the third verse.

The second verse...