I agree, I think it's about drugs, he's girlfriend is trying to get him to quit and maybe he has been clean for a while but he slips and goes back to the "carnival", I think the lion again represents drugs, saying he tamed it once but now he's loosing control of it, the flaming sword is a needle perhaps and he's lover catches him using it, soon he finds himself in a hospital bed perhaps with regret for what he did and tryings to think of how he's going to explain what he did.
@Cyberghost That was very well thought out. before I read this I had no idea what the song meant. This obviously isn't the DEFINITE meaning but it could be where he was going with it!
@Cyberghost That was very well thought out. before I read this I had no idea what the song meant. This obviously isn't the DEFINITE meaning but it could be where he was going with it!
I agree, I think it's about drugs, he's girlfriend is trying to get him to quit and maybe he has been clean for a while but he slips and goes back to the "carnival", I think the lion again represents drugs, saying he tamed it once but now he's loosing control of it, the flaming sword is a needle perhaps and he's lover catches him using it, soon he finds himself in a hospital bed perhaps with regret for what he did and tryings to think of how he's going to explain what he did.
@Cyberghost That was very well thought out. before I read this I had no idea what the song meant. This obviously isn't the DEFINITE meaning but it could be where he was going with it!
@Cyberghost That was very well thought out. before I read this I had no idea what the song meant. This obviously isn't the DEFINITE meaning but it could be where he was going with it!