Dead Slate Pacific Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Chexican 

Cover art for Dead Slate Pacific lyrics by John Vanderslice

Celexa is a form of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, which, in simpleton's terms, is an antidepressent. Essentially, the narrator of the song is deeply depressed (hence the celexa) over separation from a lover or friend far across the ocean

"I used to think there was nothing between us/just 6000 miles of the dead, slate pacific"

Also, he admits that only the person he so yearns for can make him happy again, something no drug could ever instill in him,hence:

that's when I really knew the only thing standing between me and that long rope on a carpenter's beam was you.

^That, my friends, is a beautiful, beautiful lyric.