The meaning is obviously about the way drug culture is portrayed... For instance, Los Angeles is reknowned for being both a celebrity-ridden city and also for having an underground drug network, and how it's become glamorous for one to be high constantly. "The story of desperate, on drugs, the girl almost made it, the girl almost won" - the character featured in this song became addicted and died after falling into the wrong lifestyle in Los Angeles, even though she thought she'd get the brilliant showcased jet-set life. And the line "You can't ask Alice" reffers to an infamous book called Go Ask Alice portrayed as a diary, chronicling the life of a drug addict spoiler who ends up dead from an overdose.
The meaning is obviously about the way drug culture is portrayed... For instance, Los Angeles is reknowned for being both a celebrity-ridden city and also for having an underground drug network, and how it's become glamorous for one to be high constantly. "The story of desperate, on drugs, the girl almost made it, the girl almost won" - the character featured in this song became addicted and died after falling into the wrong lifestyle in Los Angeles, even though she thought she'd get the brilliant showcased jet-set life. And the line "You can't ask Alice" reffers to an infamous book called Go Ask Alice portrayed as a diary, chronicling the life of a drug addict spoiler who ends up dead from an overdose.