This song is abt our struggle in life. The cigarette represents that vice that you need to cope with all the stress of living. He has to give in to "the man", so have a "cig" and wash that feeling of failure away. Everyone is always giving him crap and he can't take it so have another cig and wash that away too. Blind and deaf, the only way he can get by is to shut the world out, pray for the best and of course, have another cigarette. He thinks he will somehow break out of the rat race because he's so sure that he's unique. In the same way everyone think they're different from everyone else and will do their own thing and not conform to society.
He thinks he's made something of himself and that it's everyone else who has the problem. Then he realizes he has to accept that he is falling. Then he's in denial. I could never be like this! As in, how could I have sunk so low, this is what I tried so hard to avoid. And now, here, at rock bottom, he pleads with someone important to him. And he starts learning to crawl signifying that he hasn't given up.
This song is abt our struggle in life. The cigarette represents that vice that you need to cope with all the stress of living. He has to give in to "the man", so have a "cig" and wash that feeling of failure away. Everyone is always giving him crap and he can't take it so have another cig and wash that away too. Blind and deaf, the only way he can get by is to shut the world out, pray for the best and of course, have another cigarette. He thinks he will somehow break out of the rat race because he's so sure that he's unique. In the same way everyone think they're different from everyone else and will do their own thing and not conform to society.
He thinks he's made something of himself and that it's everyone else who has the problem. Then he realizes he has to accept that he is falling. Then he's in denial. I could never be like this! As in, how could I have sunk so low, this is what I tried so hard to avoid. And now, here, at rock bottom, he pleads with someone important to him. And he starts learning to crawl signifying that he hasn't given up.