Lyric discussion by lukefun 

Cover art for Dead & Bloated lyrics by Stone Temple Pilots

I think this song is about the anticipation of death. How, no matter how fast or far we run, where or how, we're all gonna die. It's only natural, and we may think that we're safe from death, but all of us could drop dead within the next millisecond, and it could swallow up what we're thinking like water/

That's my interpretation. Probably wrong.