Until about two minutes ago, this song had an entirely different meaning to me. It wasn't until someone on this board pointed out one line in particular that I realized I may have had it wrong all these years.
Originally, I thought this song was about a woman's addiction to drugs, but now I'm thinking this isn't about recreational drugs at all. This might be a bit far-fetched, but hear me out.
All throughout "RTSS" there is a theme that keeps popping up: area. The lyrics seem to portray not the darkness of someone's life, but instead the darkness of the city itself. The lyrics tell of a desperate need to flee from this place. "Out of the darkness in the night". I think the woman in the story is a victim. How, as long as she's in this place, she will be terrorized and victimized unless she finds some way out...but it seems to this woman that there is no way out of this horrible place.
There is definately a drug-related significance though. One thing is hazy. I don't know if she takes the drugs to numb herself (or kill herself) from the horrors she lives, or if the drug is symbolic, symbolizing the way the place she lives will end up destroying her if she doesn't find a way out.
Either way, the aura darkness in this song is definately revolving around the area in which she lives. An area in which this woman has to suffer in silence.
"Then I floated out of here" must directly refer to either drugs or some sort of madness encountered from living in such a horrible place.
Until about two minutes ago, this song had an entirely different meaning to me. It wasn't until someone on this board pointed out one line in particular that I realized I may have had it wrong all these years.
Originally, I thought this song was about a woman's addiction to drugs, but now I'm thinking this isn't about recreational drugs at all. This might be a bit far-fetched, but hear me out.
All throughout "RTSS" there is a theme that keeps popping up: area. The lyrics seem to portray not the darkness of someone's life, but instead the darkness of the city itself. The lyrics tell of a desperate need to flee from this place. "Out of the darkness in the night". I think the woman in the story is a victim. How, as long as she's in this place, she will be terrorized and victimized unless she finds some way out...but it seems to this woman that there is no way out of this horrible place.
There is definately a drug-related significance though. One thing is hazy. I don't know if she takes the drugs to numb herself (or kill herself) from the horrors she lives, or if the drug is symbolic, symbolizing the way the place she lives will end up destroying her if she doesn't find a way out.
Either way, the aura darkness in this song is definately revolving around the area in which she lives. An area in which this woman has to suffer in silence.
"Then I floated out of here" must directly refer to either drugs or some sort of madness encountered from living in such a horrible place.