That is maybe the saddest line in an ES song to me. I think this song is definitely about his former self, when he was on drugs; the song addresses who he had become as a drug addict, told from both sides (as the addict, and the recovering). But that line... just sounds like a plea to the "real" him, the one who was always there. That simple, inexplicable joy of dancing when everything has lost meaning, and you've lost yourself in drugs.
The "fond farewell", I think, refers to that feeling of missing a drug that a former addict always has, no matter how bad things were when he/she was using, or how long he/she's been clean (so I've heard). It's what tempts long-sober people back for "just one hit", because they're so desperate to get that feeling just once more.
"He said, 'really, I just wanna dance'..."
That is maybe the saddest line in an ES song to me. I think this song is definitely about his former self, when he was on drugs; the song addresses who he had become as a drug addict, told from both sides (as the addict, and the recovering). But that line... just sounds like a plea to the "real" him, the one who was always there. That simple, inexplicable joy of dancing when everything has lost meaning, and you've lost yourself in drugs.
The "fond farewell", I think, refers to that feeling of missing a drug that a former addict always has, no matter how bad things were when he/she was using, or how long he/she's been clean (so I've heard). It's what tempts long-sober people back for "just one hit", because they're so desperate to get that feeling just once more.