o0MyCatharsis0o, it's not a song about drugs though, he's just saying that it's too late to get high.
The greatest line in the world:
"Get your dreams just right and let them slip away.."
Adam Duritz is a lyrical genius.
Here's where Adam discusses the meaning from their website:
"This guy doesn't have connections to other people. He's imagining a place where there was this camaraderie, where everything was cool and obvious. But he can't get there. The last verse says, 'If you don't come through, I wouldn't wait for you. I understand that everyone goes disappearing into that greater gray.' He's talking about a specific person, but also about everybody. You can't depend on other people. He dreams about it, he wants to do it, but he keeps letting them go. He doesn't grab onto anything; it's partly his own fault." The chorus seems almost to celebrate that "it's too late to get high." "I'm past the point in my life where I'm going to be able to solve my problems by getting high. There's a point where it's fun, then there's a point where it ain't gonna do you any good anymore. It's too late for that to be any kind of an answer. It's too late for all of those things that are going to make you feel good for a moment, whether it's getting high or stepping off the end of the world or calling a girl in the middle of the night or staring at photographs. It does mean you don't wish it would work."
o0MyCatharsis0o, it's not a song about drugs though, he's just saying that it's too late to get high.
The greatest line in the world:
"Get your dreams just right and let them slip away.."
Adam Duritz is a lyrical genius.
Here's where Adam discusses the meaning from their website:
"This guy doesn't have connections to other people. He's imagining a place where there was this camaraderie, where everything was cool and obvious. But he can't get there. The last verse says, 'If you don't come through, I wouldn't wait for you. I understand that everyone goes disappearing into that greater gray.' He's talking about a specific person, but also about everybody. You can't depend on other people. He dreams about it, he wants to do it, but he keeps letting them go. He doesn't grab onto anything; it's partly his own fault." The chorus seems almost to celebrate that "it's too late to get high." "I'm past the point in my life where I'm going to be able to solve my problems by getting high. There's a point where it's fun, then there's a point where it ain't gonna do you any good anymore. It's too late for that to be any kind of an answer. It's too late for all of those things that are going to make you feel good for a moment, whether it's getting high or stepping off the end of the world or calling a girl in the middle of the night or staring at photographs. It does mean you don't wish it would work."