It may be about a person who resorts to alcohol to drown their troubles (on the table is your only friend) yet they don't really want to give up/die...or literally go home to their troubles (you don't want to go home)...the guy in the song is telling the person nothing here (maybe the bar) can save you...but yet the person refuses to go home and whatever goes in through one end goes out the other (the hole in your head)
It may be about a person who resorts to alcohol to drown their troubles (on the table is your only friend) yet they don't really want to give up/die...or literally go home to their troubles (you don't want to go home)...the guy in the song is telling the person nothing here (maybe the bar) can save you...but yet the person refuses to go home and whatever goes in through one end goes out the other (the hole in your head)