He's comparing the use of crystal meth with the stages of a relationship with someone and how now he's just chasing the dragon and wishing that it was the way it was in the beginning of his relationship with someone. In the beginning, there is the magical days, then in the end it is all so old and tiring and there's nothing there, there's no sex in the relationship anymore, etc. You're just there. The stages of addiction and dependence are just like friendship, dating, marriage. For example, when you try a drug, it's like acquiantance, then you try it more and more to the point where you're doing it socially and this is the friendship phase, you're in the dating phase when you're doing it alone, this is addiction, marriage is dependence.
@accebere Bingo! Not sure I agree with your details on the phases, but you have the overall theme exactly. He's comparing the stages of a relationship to getting hung up on a new drug. Starts out all bright and shiny, then ends with you going through the motions trying to get the same feeling you had when you first tried it, but just repeating the actions without success and ending in misery. This song is one of the five best songs of the 90s IMO.
@accebere Bingo! Not sure I agree with your details on the phases, but you have the overall theme exactly. He's comparing the stages of a relationship to getting hung up on a new drug. Starts out all bright and shiny, then ends with you going through the motions trying to get the same feeling you had when you first tried it, but just repeating the actions without success and ending in misery. This song is one of the five best songs of the 90s IMO.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I don't know if a girl actually exists at all. The girl in this song may actually be methamphetamine. Meth itself is a very sexual drug and people use it so that they can fuck for hours on end. So this metaphor is perfect. In addition, meth is a drug that remains very seductive to you even if it starts ruining your life. Ever stay with the romantic partner where everything was shitty but "she's got her jaws just locked now...
I think you hit the nail on the head. I don't know if a girl actually exists at all. The girl in this song may actually be methamphetamine. Meth itself is a very sexual drug and people use it so that they can fuck for hours on end. So this metaphor is perfect. In addition, meth is a drug that remains very seductive to you even if it starts ruining your life. Ever stay with the romantic partner where everything was shitty but "she's got her jaws just locked now in smile"? Ever get in a big fight with your partner (come down on meth), but then after a day or two, after swearing that you would leave, you're back for more?
Of course the lyrics are written in a way where you could interpret it several ways. Maybe he's in a relationship with a girl and they're doing drugs together but they're both hooked on their lifestyle even though it's destroying them. Maybe it's describing both at once with the same exact lines.
Really cleverly written song. Now time to chop another line like a coda with a curse....
He's comparing the use of crystal meth with the stages of a relationship with someone and how now he's just chasing the dragon and wishing that it was the way it was in the beginning of his relationship with someone. In the beginning, there is the magical days, then in the end it is all so old and tiring and there's nothing there, there's no sex in the relationship anymore, etc. You're just there. The stages of addiction and dependence are just like friendship, dating, marriage. For example, when you try a drug, it's like acquiantance, then you try it more and more to the point where you're doing it socially and this is the friendship phase, you're in the dating phase when you're doing it alone, this is addiction, marriage is dependence.
@accebere Bingo! Not sure I agree with your details on the phases, but you have the overall theme exactly. He's comparing the stages of a relationship to getting hung up on a new drug. Starts out all bright and shiny, then ends with you going through the motions trying to get the same feeling you had when you first tried it, but just repeating the actions without success and ending in misery. This song is one of the five best songs of the 90s IMO.
@accebere Bingo! Not sure I agree with your details on the phases, but you have the overall theme exactly. He's comparing the stages of a relationship to getting hung up on a new drug. Starts out all bright and shiny, then ends with you going through the motions trying to get the same feeling you had when you first tried it, but just repeating the actions without success and ending in misery. This song is one of the five best songs of the 90s IMO.
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I think you hit the nail on the head. I don't know if a girl actually exists at all. The girl in this song may actually be methamphetamine. Meth itself is a very sexual drug and people use it so that they can fuck for hours on end. So this metaphor is perfect. In addition, meth is a drug that remains very seductive to you even if it starts ruining your life. Ever stay with the romantic partner where everything was shitty but "she's got her jaws just locked now...
I think you hit the nail on the head. I don't know if a girl actually exists at all. The girl in this song may actually be methamphetamine. Meth itself is a very sexual drug and people use it so that they can fuck for hours on end. So this metaphor is perfect. In addition, meth is a drug that remains very seductive to you even if it starts ruining your life. Ever stay with the romantic partner where everything was shitty but "she's got her jaws just locked now in smile"? Ever get in a big fight with your partner (come down on meth), but then after a day or two, after swearing that you would leave, you're back for more?
Of course the lyrics are written in a way where you could interpret it several ways. Maybe he's in a relationship with a girl and they're doing drugs together but they're both hooked on their lifestyle even though it's destroying them. Maybe it's describing both at once with the same exact lines.
Really cleverly written song. Now time to chop another line like a coda with a curse....