Here's what I think. In the first verse, the main guy in the song is thinking back about a broken friendship. The lines "rolled for a dollar..." and "...luck of the dice" make me think that he took some sort of risk at his friend's suggestion, and somehow that risk led to them no longer being friends. Based on the first two lines of the song, I'd guess that the friend encouraged the main guy to experiment with drugs, but the main guy got hooked on harder stuff and got in too deep and now the friend wants nothing to do with him.
In the second verse, the first two lines ("kids" and "..what you're saying") are words of a new acquaintance in a conversation with main guy. The last two lines of the verse ("..word out of me" and "indifferent") are the main guy's thoughts during the conversation. If this new person can't understand him, then he just won't talk. Perhaps due to past friendships and broken trust, he knows that others can seem cold and indifferent to his own problems.
And that brings us to the chorus. He feels that others have let him down when he's been in a bad place before, now he's struggling again, and he feels that there's no one in the world he can trust to help hi out.
Very sad.
Since this was a '97 Jackpot! recording originally, I imagine it might be Interscope property now.. but I still hope it will be released at some point. I like the demo well enough, but a release would be nice.
Here's what I think. In the first verse, the main guy in the song is thinking back about a broken friendship. The lines "rolled for a dollar..." and "...luck of the dice" make me think that he took some sort of risk at his friend's suggestion, and somehow that risk led to them no longer being friends. Based on the first two lines of the song, I'd guess that the friend encouraged the main guy to experiment with drugs, but the main guy got hooked on harder stuff and got in too deep and now the friend wants nothing to do with him.
In the second verse, the first two lines ("kids" and "..what you're saying") are words of a new acquaintance in a conversation with main guy. The last two lines of the verse ("..word out of me" and "indifferent") are the main guy's thoughts during the conversation. If this new person can't understand him, then he just won't talk. Perhaps due to past friendships and broken trust, he knows that others can seem cold and indifferent to his own problems.
And that brings us to the chorus. He feels that others have let him down when he's been in a bad place before, now he's struggling again, and he feels that there's no one in the world he can trust to help hi out.
Very sad.
Since this was a '97 Jackpot! recording originally, I imagine it might be Interscope property now.. but I still hope it will be released at some point. I like the demo well enough, but a release would be nice.