This song is definitely about heroin. I am a heroin user., have been for almost a year now. This is about heroin, how wonderful it is as well as how terrible can be the comedown. Let's cite examples, shall we?
"I've been struck dumb by a voice that speaks from deep beneath the cold black water."
For starters, 'cold black water' should have been a dead giveaway if you've ever seen a heroin shot mixed and ready for injection. If you've ever tried to talk to anyone who's just bee shot up, you'll find they're unable to do anything but dreamily nod at you -- struck dumb by a voice from beneath the cold black water, quite literally. All the water imagery in this song, and much of it in the whole album, I believe, refers to heroin and the life-changing effects of the "black water".
"But I'm so comfortable...Too comfortable."
This is really easy. It refers to what we call "nodding out," where you are totally awake, but so comfortable you can't move at all.
"shut up shut up shut up shut up
shut up shut up shut up shut up
you're saturating me
So how could I let this bring me
back to my knees again again again "
This refers to about three hours after your shots, everyone becoming unable to deal with anyone else's voice, any sounds, everyone demanding absolute silence, feeling weak and vulnerable and poor and guilty.
The final verse repeats a lot of this imagery from te perspective of the end of the night. You don't have much left, you're scraping your bag, etc., etc., and can't get nearly as high as you were before, filled with guilt and poverty and residual euphoria.
Euphoria.... can anyone argue that this isn't about heroin?
@fifteenfathomsdown great analogy you made here :)
Only that I think the "shut up your saturating me" part refers to that craving, inner thought/voice, whatever you want to call it, knowing you shouldn't do it again but do so anyways. It gets to a point that's the one and only thought you have (you're saturating me)
Rock on! \m/ \m/
@fifteenfathomsdown great analogy you made here :)
Only that I think the "shut up your saturating me" part refers to that craving, inner thought/voice, whatever you want to call it, knowing you shouldn't do it again but do so anyways. It gets to a point that's the one and only thought you have (you're saturating me)
Rock on! \m/ \m/
This song is definitely about heroin. I am a heroin user., have been for almost a year now. This is about heroin, how wonderful it is as well as how terrible can be the comedown. Let's cite examples, shall we?
"I've been struck dumb by a voice that speaks from deep beneath the cold black water."
For starters, 'cold black water' should have been a dead giveaway if you've ever seen a heroin shot mixed and ready for injection. If you've ever tried to talk to anyone who's just bee shot up, you'll find they're unable to do anything but dreamily nod at you -- struck dumb by a voice from beneath the cold black water, quite literally. All the water imagery in this song, and much of it in the whole album, I believe, refers to heroin and the life-changing effects of the "black water".
"But I'm so comfortable...Too comfortable."
This is really easy. It refers to what we call "nodding out," where you are totally awake, but so comfortable you can't move at all.
"shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up you're saturating me So how could I let this bring me back to my knees again again again "
This refers to about three hours after your shots, everyone becoming unable to deal with anyone else's voice, any sounds, everyone demanding absolute silence, feeling weak and vulnerable and poor and guilty.
The final verse repeats a lot of this imagery from te perspective of the end of the night. You don't have much left, you're scraping your bag, etc., etc., and can't get nearly as high as you were before, filled with guilt and poverty and residual euphoria.
Euphoria.... can anyone argue that this isn't about heroin?
@fifteenfathomsdown great analogy you made here :) Only that I think the "shut up your saturating me" part refers to that craving, inner thought/voice, whatever you want to call it, knowing you shouldn't do it again but do so anyways. It gets to a point that's the one and only thought you have (you're saturating me) Rock on! \m/ \m/
@fifteenfathomsdown great analogy you made here :) Only that I think the "shut up your saturating me" part refers to that craving, inner thought/voice, whatever you want to call it, knowing you shouldn't do it again but do so anyways. It gets to a point that's the one and only thought you have (you're saturating me) Rock on! \m/ \m/
@fifteenfathomsdown I'd reply but I wonder if you are alive in the first place now !
@fifteenfathomsdown I'd reply but I wonder if you are alive in the first place now !
@fifteenfathomsdown He wouldnt have made the definition of the song so obvious im siding with top comment on this one
@fifteenfathomsdown He wouldnt have made the definition of the song so obvious im siding with top comment on this one