Taking a Fall

i never thought about this song as something to do with drugs and i still really don't. the only lines that could make it seem that way are these four (which happen to be half the song so...)

"Took it like medicine, horrible in a hurry Lots of plans go awry, nothing’s wrong, I won’t worry"

Took it like medicine, horrible in a hurry

• take heroin like your daily dose of paxil, what have you Lots of plans go awry, nothing’s wrong, I won’t worry
• you could have so many plans but once you get a heroin addiction or back into your addiction all your plans do what he says, go awry. and when you are high nothing is wrong, and you have no worries (hence why he wont worry - he has nothing to worry about)

then we have these two lines:

"Then you won’t hear a word out of me Cause I know how indifferent someone can be"

Then you won’t hear a word out of me

• you usually dont hear to many words out of someone who just shot up because they have no worries and they are numb and not so much oblivious to things but just dont care to acknowledge things (usually the main focus of a junkie, to not have to acknowledge and feel things)

Cause I know how indifferent someone can be

• indifferent to me is used here as meaning something marked by a lack of interest or enthusiasm which goes hand in hand with heroin addiction.

then we have the chorus:

"Taking a fall You don’t know who to call Well, you don’t know who, do you? Taking a fall"

heroin addiction is certainly taking a fall if anything is. i think he doesnt know who to call for help with his addiction, probably because it seems so hopeless, as it should and would.

everyone gets mad when people turn everyone of elliotts songs into a song about addiction but what you all need to realize, whether he meant it to be about that or not, is neither here nor there. you get what you get out of a song, and if it helps you cope then it helps you cope. he wrong the song for one reason, and you may like it and listen to it for another reason. so calm down everybody.