Lyric discussion by littlesong89 

Cover art for Black Boy Lane lyrics by Babyshambles

I'd hope it wouldn't be about racism! If so it wouldn't be making any kind of statement about it... it would just be racist.

I agree that it's about the ACTUAL Lane. Also in demo I have it says something like "but the bed...this is the bed that you must lay" rather than about men, but maybe that's a different version.

The the bit about the "fella I knew" I first thought could be about himself, how he's not really a person, because of the drugs... but I guess a more obvious meaning would be that this is a reference to the drug dealer.