This halo might represent drugs; a worldly escape. It's a temporary 'savior', but it increasingly exhausts the user each and every time.
I speculate it's about a girl. She may be the singer's muse or someone who simply at one point was innocent, and yet to be corrupted. In his eyes she is an angel, blinded by love. But nobody can be perfect. Nobody's an angel. Hand-me-downs are usually worn, tattered, or weathered in some way or another; so is this woman.
It's a hand me down halo since he assigns her this idealistic image; he's in love with the idea of her. She's fallen from Heaven, but her 'halo' is just a symbol of his love for her; it is imagined. It is given to her from him. It is a hand me down halo, and like most other hand-me-downs, it's bound to deteriorate. Keep the song in this context, and it's about him watching her decay into someone he hates, because of an addiction or drug use in general.
'a little nasty. a little balloon'
'they follow to another cell, to another cell'
this definately seems to be referring to drugs, cocaine or heroin probably. MountedTigerHead is on the right track. second lyric is regarding finding drugs; calling dealers, using middle men. It wastes a whole bunch of time.
'hand me down halo'
This halo might represent drugs; a worldly escape. It's a temporary 'savior', but it increasingly exhausts the user each and every time.
I speculate it's about a girl. She may be the singer's muse or someone who simply at one point was innocent, and yet to be corrupted. In his eyes she is an angel, blinded by love. But nobody can be perfect. Nobody's an angel. Hand-me-downs are usually worn, tattered, or weathered in some way or another; so is this woman. It's a hand me down halo since he assigns her this idealistic image; he's in love with the idea of her. She's fallen from Heaven, but her 'halo' is just a symbol of his love for her; it is imagined. It is given to her from him. It is a hand me down halo, and like most other hand-me-downs, it's bound to deteriorate. Keep the song in this context, and it's about him watching her decay into someone he hates, because of an addiction or drug use in general.
'a little nasty. a little balloon' 'they follow to another cell, to another cell' this definately seems to be referring to drugs, cocaine or heroin probably. MountedTigerHead is on the right track. second lyric is regarding finding drugs; calling dealers, using middle men. It wastes a whole bunch of time.