Going with the overall story of What's Going On, this song is about a Vietnam Vet who became hooked on drugs while on tour and is now back home in the US trying to deal with his addiction. He goes back to his vice because it is the one thing that he can connect from his time in the war to his time back home. Nothing from home made sense in Vietnam and nothing from Vietnam makes sense back home but his drugs are the one thing that he can experience in both places. He knows it's slowly killing him but he needs to find the only comfortable place he knows and by the end of the song he accepts that fact again at least for another night. Just my take.
Going with the overall story of What's Going On, this song is about a Vietnam Vet who became hooked on drugs while on tour and is now back home in the US trying to deal with his addiction. He goes back to his vice because it is the one thing that he can connect from his time in the war to his time back home. Nothing from home made sense in Vietnam and nothing from Vietnam makes sense back home but his drugs are the one thing that he can experience in both places. He knows it's slowly killing him but he needs to find the only comfortable place he knows and by the end of the song he accepts that fact again at least for another night. Just my take.