he's comparing a bad drug trip or addiction to a voyage by sea, the first line "i think i'm water" is how motion sea-sickness feels, and the sickness that grows inside is scurvy that people got from not having fruit for vitamin C on ships.
uppers, the kind of drug he probably likes such as ecstasy, are usually taken along with vitamin C pills, or orange juice, and then more is taken the next day to help with the hangover.
"you had to make it a bad trip" i guess refers to people he was tripping with or his friends who might not like his habit, and are the shipmates he feels stuck with. then he talks about starving eyes and last rights denied, which is the fact he's stranded at sea and won't have proper burial rights since there's no ground, then he calls the sea a mass grave.
this next part's a stretch but just how i interpret it, i think he suggests the ship resorts to cannibalism or something since there's a coinflip where someone has to call heads or tails and then washing of hands, and then horrible feelings of veiled guilt and overt denial
he's comparing a bad drug trip or addiction to a voyage by sea, the first line "i think i'm water" is how motion sea-sickness feels, and the sickness that grows inside is scurvy that people got from not having fruit for vitamin C on ships.
uppers, the kind of drug he probably likes such as ecstasy, are usually taken along with vitamin C pills, or orange juice, and then more is taken the next day to help with the hangover.
"you had to make it a bad trip" i guess refers to people he was tripping with or his friends who might not like his habit, and are the shipmates he feels stuck with. then he talks about starving eyes and last rights denied, which is the fact he's stranded at sea and won't have proper burial rights since there's no ground, then he calls the sea a mass grave.
this next part's a stretch but just how i interpret it, i think he suggests the ship resorts to cannibalism or something since there's a coinflip where someone has to call heads or tails and then washing of hands, and then horrible feelings of veiled guilt and overt denial