while Kevine Devine has admitted to being a drug user/alcoholic, i feel like his reference to such things in his music has become more metaphorical, since in my own experience, when you've tried a drug and not felt like it was a good decision, you learn a lot about life and yourself from it.
Specifically in this song i feel like drug use is a metaphor about Kevin's song writing. it can be easily discerned that Kevin writes about subject matter that is real, and more often than not, it has dark connotations. the drug reference and the part that says "I write like this" would point, in my opinion, to the conclusion that writing songs with dark meanings and connotations is something he always wanted to do, which is common in the "indie" scene, or music in general really. and a "girl" listener points out to him that all of his songs make it sound like he is unhappy with himself and life, as most of his lyrics are about his own internal struggles. The phrase, "I write like this, it sounds worse than it is," would say, to me, that he really writes those things because those are the things he chooses to express, while he continues to be otherwise happy in his everyday life.
thus the song is about putting on the image of sadness and depression whilst he is really content and just trying to work out life's kinks.
while Kevine Devine has admitted to being a drug user/alcoholic, i feel like his reference to such things in his music has become more metaphorical, since in my own experience, when you've tried a drug and not felt like it was a good decision, you learn a lot about life and yourself from it.
Specifically in this song i feel like drug use is a metaphor about Kevin's song writing. it can be easily discerned that Kevin writes about subject matter that is real, and more often than not, it has dark connotations. the drug reference and the part that says "I write like this" would point, in my opinion, to the conclusion that writing songs with dark meanings and connotations is something he always wanted to do, which is common in the "indie" scene, or music in general really. and a "girl" listener points out to him that all of his songs make it sound like he is unhappy with himself and life, as most of his lyrics are about his own internal struggles. The phrase, "I write like this, it sounds worse than it is," would say, to me, that he really writes those things because those are the things he chooses to express, while he continues to be otherwise happy in his everyday life.
thus the song is about putting on the image of sadness and depression whilst he is really content and just trying to work out life's kinks.