I just love this song. Having spent quite a lot of time on meth benders (and actually managed to come out the other side reasonably unscathed, and had some great times in the process) i can really relate to this song. His images are fantastic - you can tell he's speaking from personal experience.
Martin calls to say he's sending old electrical equipment
That's good we can always use some more electrical equipment
(I always think that this could be two things - firstly, that electrical equipment can be sold for money for more meth or exchanged for the drug its self. Alternatively, it could be that when you're high, you like to play with toys - stereos, flashy lights, synthesizers etc. It does sounds sarcastic, which makes me think they may be sitting in a room already full of electrical junk.)
In the cold clear light of day down here
Everyone's a monster
That's cool with all of us
We've been past the point of help since early April
(meth makes you look ghastly - your skin gets pale and translucent - scars and blood vesles and pimples stand out like crazy - after a particularly long time, some people develop sores, their teeth degrade and they generally look monsterous - i'm happy to say i never got that hard into it, but you still look pretty sickly when you're high on meth, evern after 8 hours or so - but you just don't care, because everyone looks like that, the only important thing is finding more meth)
Susan and her notebook
Freehand drawings of Lon Chaney
Blueprints for geodesic domes
Recipes for cake
(the crazy things you do when you're high - you have a lot of time to kill and youre brain is working at a million miles an hour - sometimes you just need to get it all down on paper - some of the most amazing things have come out of evenings on meth.. and some utter crap as well.)
Yeah we're all here
Chewing our tongues off
Waiting for the fever to break
(self-explainatory, meth makes your jaw clench and makes you hot)
When we walk out in the sunlight we tell every we know it hurts our eyes
When the real reason we don't like it is that it makes us wonder if we're dying
(this is such a surreal feeling - i remember hating going out in the day after a night on it, you feel like a night creature, like you don't belong in the pure, sunlit world. The light does hurt your enlarged pupils - but it's more than that - you feel almost dirty.)
And Martin's found an old trunk full of stage makeup in the basement
And he's sending it along
We can always use more makeup
Yeah more creams and powders
(to me, this is about covering up how hideous you look so you can face the world, the fact that it's stage makeup is particularly important - it's about pretending to be someone you're not, ie a normal member of society.)
And Carrie's got the feeling
That the people next door
Will close in like a wolf pack
Should we make one small mistake
(the dreaded paranoia. I'm happy I have never experienced this either, but i know some people who went a little off the deep end in this regard - it's scary)
Yeah we're all here
Chewing our tongues off
Waiting for the fever to break
(i wonder if this repeated line about the fever breaking may actually be about waiting for it to all be over - whether "fever" is the addiction its self...)
I just love this song. Having spent quite a lot of time on meth benders (and actually managed to come out the other side reasonably unscathed, and had some great times in the process) i can really relate to this song. His images are fantastic - you can tell he's speaking from personal experience.
Martin calls to say he's sending old electrical equipment That's good we can always use some more electrical equipment (I always think that this could be two things - firstly, that electrical equipment can be sold for money for more meth or exchanged for the drug its self. Alternatively, it could be that when you're high, you like to play with toys - stereos, flashy lights, synthesizers etc. It does sounds sarcastic, which makes me think they may be sitting in a room already full of electrical junk.)
In the cold clear light of day down here Everyone's a monster That's cool with all of us We've been past the point of help since early April (meth makes you look ghastly - your skin gets pale and translucent - scars and blood vesles and pimples stand out like crazy - after a particularly long time, some people develop sores, their teeth degrade and they generally look monsterous - i'm happy to say i never got that hard into it, but you still look pretty sickly when you're high on meth, evern after 8 hours or so - but you just don't care, because everyone looks like that, the only important thing is finding more meth)
Susan and her notebook Freehand drawings of Lon Chaney Blueprints for geodesic domes Recipes for cake (the crazy things you do when you're high - you have a lot of time to kill and youre brain is working at a million miles an hour - sometimes you just need to get it all down on paper - some of the most amazing things have come out of evenings on meth.. and some utter crap as well.)
Yeah we're all here Chewing our tongues off Waiting for the fever to break (self-explainatory, meth makes your jaw clench and makes you hot)
When we walk out in the sunlight we tell every we know it hurts our eyes When the real reason we don't like it is that it makes us wonder if we're dying (this is such a surreal feeling - i remember hating going out in the day after a night on it, you feel like a night creature, like you don't belong in the pure, sunlit world. The light does hurt your enlarged pupils - but it's more than that - you feel almost dirty.)
And Martin's found an old trunk full of stage makeup in the basement And he's sending it along We can always use more makeup Yeah more creams and powders (to me, this is about covering up how hideous you look so you can face the world, the fact that it's stage makeup is particularly important - it's about pretending to be someone you're not, ie a normal member of society.)
And Carrie's got the feeling That the people next door Will close in like a wolf pack Should we make one small mistake (the dreaded paranoia. I'm happy I have never experienced this either, but i know some people who went a little off the deep end in this regard - it's scary)
Yeah we're all here Chewing our tongues off Waiting for the fever to break (i wonder if this repeated line about the fever breaking may actually be about waiting for it to all be over - whether "fever" is the addiction its self...)