I think this song is a deep depression song, which is a part of a sad and negative album.
It sounds like chris cornell simulates himself as a drug dealer who accidantally ran into a beautiful shining and colorful girl, and though he wants her, he bumps into his low self-esteem barrier.
He's also demonstrating what He feels that SHE IS for him : a high class girl who's so innocent and perfect from the inside and the outside as one. Any relationship with him could only scratch her pink bubble and turn her to someone like him, like he is contagous. He's living kind of a spartan life, and when someone so pure and clean as this flutter girl enters to his life, he's naturally pushes her away cause he doesn't believe that there's anything good witing for him in this world.
When he says "You don't wanna take what I give, Cause I give nothing for free", I think he's acctualy trying to say that he has drugs but he won't let her use them, not for free, as the price she has to pay for the drugs is her pureness, and he won't let it happen because in gis eyes she is way more worthy living than him, she's a couple steps ahead of him in the ladder of life. Let him drown safely and continue your life, live and let die.
I think this song is a deep depression song, which is a part of a sad and negative album. It sounds like chris cornell simulates himself as a drug dealer who accidantally ran into a beautiful shining and colorful girl, and though he wants her, he bumps into his low self-esteem barrier. He's also demonstrating what He feels that SHE IS for him : a high class girl who's so innocent and perfect from the inside and the outside as one. Any relationship with him could only scratch her pink bubble and turn her to someone like him, like he is contagous. He's living kind of a spartan life, and when someone so pure and clean as this flutter girl enters to his life, he's naturally pushes her away cause he doesn't believe that there's anything good witing for him in this world. When he says "You don't wanna take what I give, Cause I give nothing for free", I think he's acctualy trying to say that he has drugs but he won't let her use them, not for free, as the price she has to pay for the drugs is her pureness, and he won't let it happen because in gis eyes she is way more worthy living than him, she's a couple steps ahead of him in the ladder of life. Let him drown safely and continue your life, live and let die.