The speaker seems to have rejected ("I gave my life to reason") the pressure of religious faith's judgments ("I feel the pressure, it lightens / to judge this spirit of mine"), but temptation still lingers. Although it is beautiful (hence the wings), the temptation is still a struggle that he "can't shake," even describing his failure as "feeding my cancer." I'm not too sure of the identify of the temptation -- maybe temptation in general. I can't say heroin since it seems that he's only taken heroin twice (1). He took the second and nearly fatal dose after my first and only Pantera show in Dallas back in 1996.
The speaker seems to have rejected ("I gave my life to reason") the pressure of religious faith's judgments ("I feel the pressure, it lightens / to judge this spirit of mine"), but temptation still lingers. Although it is beautiful (hence the wings), the temptation is still a struggle that he "can't shake," even describing his failure as "feeding my cancer." I'm not too sure of the identify of the temptation -- maybe temptation in general. I can't say heroin since it seems that he's only taken heroin twice (1). He took the second and nearly fatal dose after my first and only Pantera show in Dallas back in 1996.