Compiling all the ideas discussed so far, I think this song may be about when he was returning home to his girlfriend from touring alongside Test Icicles. He'd come home tired and weary, and she'd be at home drunk when he got there.
"I feel better now I've seen you, but deep inside my bones feel like timber"
The fact that he's happy to see her after such a long time apart, but inside he's tired of her behaviour, and from the touring.
"I am shaking from the tension, and I will shudder at the mention."
The first half just backs-up the point made earlier, but as for the shuddering but I'm uncertain why. It could be the mention of them splitting up, or maybe even her going out to drink again.
"Hate to think what would happen if I started to drink like you, maybe I will loosen up. Pour me another gin."
Pretty self-explanatory really. He doesn't want to turn out like her, yet due to his stomach ulcers he's unable to, and is therefore guessing that he'll loosen up and not be arguing with her about the drinking. He then asks for a drink to test it out, and is also influenced to do so so that he can relate more in the relationship.
"Guzzle down,
My neck will burn as we kiss
and I'm sick in your mouth.
I know you want more.
Lick my open wounds and add some ice,
And choke on my sick vice.
Oh girl, the lights are on."
The result of him drinking to try and be like her has made him ill as explained at the start. To ask about licking his wounds and adding ice he wants to remove the pain caused from himself and her, and to reduce it like a swelling he uses the metaphoric image of ice on a wound.
"Trapped in bed, as the poison slowly creeps in
and stops me dead. Should have known better than to cave into such fantasies."
The poison could be a metaphor for his girlfriend or the problems they share. The 'fantasies' he mentions could be him hoping that things between them will work out, or that he can drink and be like her which he tried earlier, but he was foolish to do so.
Compiling all the ideas discussed so far, I think this song may be about when he was returning home to his girlfriend from touring alongside Test Icicles. He'd come home tired and weary, and she'd be at home drunk when he got there.
"I feel better now I've seen you, but deep inside my bones feel like timber" The fact that he's happy to see her after such a long time apart, but inside he's tired of her behaviour, and from the touring.
"I am shaking from the tension, and I will shudder at the mention." The first half just backs-up the point made earlier, but as for the shuddering but I'm uncertain why. It could be the mention of them splitting up, or maybe even her going out to drink again.
"Hate to think what would happen if I started to drink like you, maybe I will loosen up. Pour me another gin." Pretty self-explanatory really. He doesn't want to turn out like her, yet due to his stomach ulcers he's unable to, and is therefore guessing that he'll loosen up and not be arguing with her about the drinking. He then asks for a drink to test it out, and is also influenced to do so so that he can relate more in the relationship.
"Guzzle down, My neck will burn as we kiss and I'm sick in your mouth. I know you want more. Lick my open wounds and add some ice, And choke on my sick vice. Oh girl, the lights are on." The result of him drinking to try and be like her has made him ill as explained at the start. To ask about licking his wounds and adding ice he wants to remove the pain caused from himself and her, and to reduce it like a swelling he uses the metaphoric image of ice on a wound.
"Trapped in bed, as the poison slowly creeps in and stops me dead. Should have known better than to cave into such fantasies." The poison could be a metaphor for his girlfriend or the problems they share. The 'fantasies' he mentions could be him hoping that things between them will work out, or that he can drink and be like her which he tried earlier, but he was foolish to do so.