Lyric discussion by bloodbledblack 

Cover art for First It Giveth lyrics by Queens of the Stone Age

This song is most defenantly about a drug addiction.

"I'm in you You're in me I can't tell"

  • He's talking about how its hazy, after a while of using some particular drugs, whether your taking the drug or if the drug is taking you.

"First it giveth, then it taketh away"

  • this is like when you first start taking certain drugs it entertains and makes you feel good, but after a while of taking the drugs you start to go down in a hole. Your 'good times' become an addiction. "I would beg I would plead I would shake"

This song is easy to understand for some people who have experienced a drug addiction. Thats why some people think its about love with a girl. but its for sure a love/hate song about drugs.

@bloodbledblack The psychology/rules or whatever of addiction are the same for all things. An unhealthy dependency. Not disagreeing just adding that it can still apply to an unhealthy relationship as well. I say this from experience. That is the beauty of music and other arts, being in the eye of the beholder.