Im gonna have to agree with Browning on his take of the song being that the singer is visiting a friend in Detox or Rehab.... i dont think all these interpretations about him visiting an old girlfriend are wrong.. but no where does it say hes visitng a women.. but lemme try to explain why i think its alcohol related..
"I'll wear my badge: a vinyl sticker with big block
letters adherent to my chest
that tells your new friends I am a visitor here: I
am not permanent " ... Hes visiting a rehab or detox... so obviously he wears a name tag to distinguish himself from the others who are staying there.
"and the only thing keeping me dry is where I am
you seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment
complex ".. Hes dry, as in sober.. and the only thing keeping him sober is the fact that hes in a place where people are being helped to not drink, then he realizes his friend is so different now that he isnt drinking.
Then i think he starts to realize that his friend went to rehab.. or left him as he says because the drinking life that the singer lives is not what he wants anymore... he points this out after he says the district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn
out their lights
and send the autos swerving into the loneliest
evening
and I am finally seeing why I was the one worth
leaving " he realizes all the stupid things people do when they drink and sees that his friend "leaving him" was the right thing to do.
Yeah I agree, I think the narrator was an enabler for his friend's addiction in the past. Maybe he was a drinking buddy? That's why he was "the one worth leaving".
Yeah I agree, I think the narrator was an enabler for his friend's addiction in the past. Maybe he was a drinking buddy? That's why he was "the one worth leaving".
For me the lines: "Smeared black ink Your palms are sweaty And I'm barely listening To last demands" summon an image of the narrator's friend nervously reading a list of rules of how they should interact from now on - things that must be done so the narrator's friend can stay sober.
For me the lines: "Smeared black ink Your palms are sweaty And I'm barely listening To last demands" summon an image of the narrator's friend nervously reading a list of rules of how they should interact from now on - things that must be done so the narrator's friend can stay sober.
Im gonna have to agree with Browning on his take of the song being that the singer is visiting a friend in Detox or Rehab.... i dont think all these interpretations about him visiting an old girlfriend are wrong.. but no where does it say hes visitng a women.. but lemme try to explain why i think its alcohol related..
"I'll wear my badge: a vinyl sticker with big block letters adherent to my chest that tells your new friends I am a visitor here: I am not permanent " ... Hes visiting a rehab or detox... so obviously he wears a name tag to distinguish himself from the others who are staying there. "and the only thing keeping me dry is where I am you seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment complex ".. Hes dry, as in sober.. and the only thing keeping him sober is the fact that hes in a place where people are being helped to not drink, then he realizes his friend is so different now that he isnt drinking.
Then i think he starts to realize that his friend went to rehab.. or left him as he says because the drinking life that the singer lives is not what he wants anymore... he points this out after he says the district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights and send the autos swerving into the loneliest evening and I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving " he realizes all the stupid things people do when they drink and sees that his friend "leaving him" was the right thing to do.
Yeah I agree, I think the narrator was an enabler for his friend's addiction in the past. Maybe he was a drinking buddy? That's why he was "the one worth leaving".
Yeah I agree, I think the narrator was an enabler for his friend's addiction in the past. Maybe he was a drinking buddy? That's why he was "the one worth leaving".
For me the lines: "Smeared black ink Your palms are sweaty And I'm barely listening To last demands" summon an image of the narrator's friend nervously reading a list of rules of how they should interact from now on - things that must be done so the narrator's friend can stay sober.
For me the lines: "Smeared black ink Your palms are sweaty And I'm barely listening To last demands" summon an image of the narrator's friend nervously reading a list of rules of how they should interact from now on - things that must be done so the narrator's friend can stay sober.