Addict Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Walley 

Cover art for Addict lyrics by Slayer

Funny how people project meanings onto things lol... sometimes it's a real stretch.

To me personally the song is very literal. It's that darkness within each of us, that cold empty core which wants to destroy, to consume life, to suck the marrow from the bone of existence. That darkness isn't all that's within us, there's the opposite side of the 'coin' too.

I know this feeling, because often when I've seen the fakeness of much of the world, of so many people, part of me desires to break them, to tear down their walls and reign with absolute power over them and their pathetic state.

It's almost like a wild dog... if such an animal respects you, it won't attack you. But if it sees your insanity, your fear and weakness, it may well do so. The natural urge to destroy and challenge that which is pathetic and weak - spiritually pathetic and weak that is, rather than what some group subjectively opinions as 'weak'.

Disgust is perhaps the appropriate word.