while i agree with most and think this is kind of about his ex-girlfriend justine, i think it is also a lament to his friendship with graham coxon (blur guitarist), which by this time was completely fraught and practically disintegrated. graham was an alcoholic and increasingly withdrawn and damon was obsessed with playing the music business game (or that's how graham saw it anyway, and i suppose he had a point), and this is about how damon knew it was pretty much over and wouldn't go back, and how he didn't feel he could continue in this way any longer.
while i agree with most and think this is kind of about his ex-girlfriend justine, i think it is also a lament to his friendship with graham coxon (blur guitarist), which by this time was completely fraught and practically disintegrated. graham was an alcoholic and increasingly withdrawn and damon was obsessed with playing the music business game (or that's how graham saw it anyway, and i suppose he had a point), and this is about how damon knew it was pretty much over and wouldn't go back, and how he didn't feel he could continue in this way any longer.