Running To Stand Still

The song is I feel about drug addiction. In the first verse, the women protagonist wakes up and wishes that she could escape her situation "step on a steam train...". In the second verse she actually succumbs to her addiction - "sweet the sin. bitter the taste in my mouth.." As she gets the initial hit, she feels waves of hopelessness - " you've got to cry without weeping" etc. In this verse she takes the drug because it says - "You know I took the poison from the poison stream...Then I floated out of here". In the final verse it goes on to talk about the horrible effects of the heroin - she runs through the streets with eyes painted red, under a black belly of cloud in the rain". She obviously 'scores ' some more drugs which is the reference to the pearls and gold. And so cycle begins again. The hopelessness seems to build in the song until all she does is run to stand still. Just my humble opinions - great song whatever the meaning.