I see this song as being written about a man who's a player and craves attention but as he ages he finds that he all he did was screw around and has no one to love him so he drowns his sorrow over being lonely, self-medicating, by drinking alcohol. Personally, this song makes me think of how when someone loves you they assume that everyone wants you. I've experienced it firsthand and also seen women who are convinced that everyone else is interested in the man they love. People are looking at others through a warped lens and "projecting" how they feel about a person onto others and making themselves jealous unnecessarily. The HBO series "True Blood" used this song in it's soundtrack for Season 3 when Jason Stackhouse was trying to get lucky. Jason's character fits this song perfectly. He's an attractive popular guy who sleeps around.
I see this song as being written about a man who's a player and craves attention but as he ages he finds that he all he did was screw around and has no one to love him so he drowns his sorrow over being lonely, self-medicating, by drinking alcohol. Personally, this song makes me think of how when someone loves you they assume that everyone wants you. I've experienced it firsthand and also seen women who are convinced that everyone else is interested in the man they love. People are looking at others through a warped lens and "projecting" how they feel about a person onto others and making themselves jealous unnecessarily. The HBO series "True Blood" used this song in it's soundtrack for Season 3 when Jason Stackhouse was trying to get lucky. Jason's character fits this song perfectly. He's an attractive popular guy who sleeps around.