Bug Lyrics

Lyric discussion by PhisHeretic 

Cover art for Bug lyrics by Phish

granted, this is my subjective interpretation:

Trey did a little TOO much living in the moment, this song was his way of communicating his struggle with heroin addiction. For example:

gold in my hand....in a [country] pool - appearance of melted heroin don't need it, don't feed it, my thoughts faded, OVERRATED

Many people use psychedelics in a cycle to try to break addictions from opiates - (I) knew long ago that Trey was having a problem with this very issue because it was obvious to anyone with experience of these drugs. FYI i am sure it was the reason for BOTH hiatuses. This song always felt like that cry of him trying to tell himself to let go and stop trying to control everything, in other words, this song is about:

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