The aim in a relationship should be reciprocity, both partners care for each other, can come with their sorrows and problems and pain to the other one, who listen and try to help or try to comfort the other one.. That is the ideal situation. And here one of both partners (I don't think if that's the women or the man is the most important issue here) is totally depending on the other one, asking to much care and help. And not doing the same back for the other one. So that one (the I person in the song) feels that she has to take care of the other one, like his mother, or like his doctor (when you go to the doctor he won't ask you for help, all his attention is about you. She feels that he wants her to be in the role of the doctor, but without paying her for all her care and help, and without caring that her energie, her engaging in that.. she has her limits (he doesn't care about that, because he expects that she's there for him even at hours when the doctor doesn't work (and has the time to rest) )
He wants her to be responsible for him, for his well-being.
About the chorus: I guess the line "mind the empty bottle" just means that the dependent partner is 'empty' , has no power or courage in himself to drag himself through a hard time, or to help himself to make things better.
"with the holes along the bottle" : the more you help him by supporting him and doing things for him, the more dependent you will make him. So it's pointless. YOU can't make him stronger that way, the energie keeps on flowing out of him.
I guess the first - and most important thing - is that he has to glue together his holes, be someone on himself, not only depending on someone else for being someone.
This line I don't really get:
"I don't want to live on someday when my motto is last week"
I agree with emlem25..
The aim in a relationship should be reciprocity, both partners care for each other, can come with their sorrows and problems and pain to the other one, who listen and try to help or try to comfort the other one.. That is the ideal situation. And here one of both partners (I don't think if that's the women or the man is the most important issue here) is totally depending on the other one, asking to much care and help. And not doing the same back for the other one. So that one (the I person in the song) feels that she has to take care of the other one, like his mother, or like his doctor (when you go to the doctor he won't ask you for help, all his attention is about you. She feels that he wants her to be in the role of the doctor, but without paying her for all her care and help, and without caring that her energie, her engaging in that.. she has her limits (he doesn't care about that, because he expects that she's there for him even at hours when the doctor doesn't work (and has the time to rest) )
He wants her to be responsible for him, for his well-being.
About the chorus: I guess the line "mind the empty bottle" just means that the dependent partner is 'empty' , has no power or courage in himself to drag himself through a hard time, or to help himself to make things better. "with the holes along the bottle" : the more you help him by supporting him and doing things for him, the more dependent you will make him. So it's pointless. YOU can't make him stronger that way, the energie keeps on flowing out of him. I guess the first - and most important thing - is that he has to glue together his holes, be someone on himself, not only depending on someone else for being someone.
This line I don't really get: "I don't want to live on someday when my motto is last week"