The song functions on two levels, which is integral to its meaning. On the one level, as magicsheep and meet4breakfast mentioned, it's just about a fun and playful relationship with a more serious undertone. Look in deeper, though, and you'll realize it's about the effects of drug use on relationships.
As the song starts, they are using drugs to, let's say, make things more fun. He realizes amidst all the pleasure, though, that "tears [can't] come from those eyes" — the drug is messing up their emotions. As fun as it is, he realizes that it's turning their relationship into a purely superficial one, all about drugs and sex and no longer about a deeper emotion. He tries to convince her not to use drugs so much, because it's messing them up - he doesn't even know who she is anymore, because the person she used to be is lost underneath the haze of drugs. ("I'm tired of looking up into those starry eyes... does it rain where you are?")
He tells her that it's messing them up ("the weather affects my knee"), but she gets angry and dumps him for a boyfriend who's fine with her addiction. "Powder your cheeks" refers to her getting high again, and "new beau" is the new boyfriend. The tragic thing is that when this happens, the grief does what the girlfriend couldn't — he withdraws back into the land of drugs. He wishes she was back with him, and says that she will, someday, wish she hadn't dumped him. In the end, the emotions brought on by her dumping him, and his love for her, and those from the drugs, all overwhelm him.
The song functions on two levels, which is integral to its meaning. On the one level, as magicsheep and meet4breakfast mentioned, it's just about a fun and playful relationship with a more serious undertone. Look in deeper, though, and you'll realize it's about the effects of drug use on relationships.
As the song starts, they are using drugs to, let's say, make things more fun. He realizes amidst all the pleasure, though, that "tears [can't] come from those eyes" — the drug is messing up their emotions. As fun as it is, he realizes that it's turning their relationship into a purely superficial one, all about drugs and sex and no longer about a deeper emotion. He tries to convince her not to use drugs so much, because it's messing them up - he doesn't even know who she is anymore, because the person she used to be is lost underneath the haze of drugs. ("I'm tired of looking up into those starry eyes... does it rain where you are?")
He tells her that it's messing them up ("the weather affects my knee"), but she gets angry and dumps him for a boyfriend who's fine with her addiction. "Powder your cheeks" refers to her getting high again, and "new beau" is the new boyfriend. The tragic thing is that when this happens, the grief does what the girlfriend couldn't — he withdraws back into the land of drugs. He wishes she was back with him, and says that she will, someday, wish she hadn't dumped him. In the end, the emotions brought on by her dumping him, and his love for her, and those from the drugs, all overwhelm him.