"Now I'm waking up with an empty hand
Trying to buy something to take me away"
I think Geoff might be singing about how people indulge themselves in material things to distract them from emotional pain of feeling alone, to "take [them] away" from the hurt.
These could be harmless things like clothes or fast food, or they could be more dangerous things like alcohol, or drugs (prescription or street).
Very powerful song regardless of whether I'm right or wrong.
"Now I'm waking up with an empty hand Trying to buy something to take me away"
I think Geoff might be singing about how people indulge themselves in material things to distract them from emotional pain of feeling alone, to "take [them] away" from the hurt. These could be harmless things like clothes or fast food, or they could be more dangerous things like alcohol, or drugs (prescription or street).
Very powerful song regardless of whether I'm right or wrong.