Personally this song always evokes the story of William Burroughs and his wife. They got drunk one night and decided to do a "william tell act". She put an apple on her head and he shot at it but missed, hitting her in the head and killing her. His subsequent struggle with the guilt over killing her contributed hugely to his writing, and by some accounts even drove him to become gay as he could no longer stand to be with women who reminded him of the woman he killed.
If not this particular story, I definitely think this song is about a person getting drunk and killing their lover. The references to alcohol and the narrator dieing internally as the other is "picked up" as by paramedics or the coroner.
Personally this song always evokes the story of William Burroughs and his wife. They got drunk one night and decided to do a "william tell act". She put an apple on her head and he shot at it but missed, hitting her in the head and killing her. His subsequent struggle with the guilt over killing her contributed hugely to his writing, and by some accounts even drove him to become gay as he could no longer stand to be with women who reminded him of the woman he killed.
If not this particular story, I definitely think this song is about a person getting drunk and killing their lover. The references to alcohol and the narrator dieing internally as the other is "picked up" as by paramedics or the coroner.
Powerful song, one of my favorites by Placebo.