This and "Race Cars and Goth Rock" is about Butch's first mistake- I mean... relationship he had when he moved to L.A. Uncomfortably Numb is an extension of the "So At Last" narrative telling Butch's story about saving up and moving to L.A., and is later concluded in "Lights Out" and "Race Cars and Goth Rock."
Basically this song is about having the first real relationship or the first real love of your life, and not being able to "fake love" somebody in a later relationship, and you just become so numb to anything and everything. It's also about wanting to leave a place because everything around reminds you of your past relationship, and then drinking yourself to high hell trying for a remedy.
This and "Race Cars and Goth Rock" is about Butch's first mistake- I mean... relationship he had when he moved to L.A. Uncomfortably Numb is an extension of the "So At Last" narrative telling Butch's story about saving up and moving to L.A., and is later concluded in "Lights Out" and "Race Cars and Goth Rock."
Basically this song is about having the first real relationship or the first real love of your life, and not being able to "fake love" somebody in a later relationship, and you just become so numb to anything and everything. It's also about wanting to leave a place because everything around reminds you of your past relationship, and then drinking yourself to high hell trying for a remedy.