This is one of those songs where I wonder how everyone else is getting the interpretations I keep hearing.
To me it seems, pretty obviously, to be about a mother (possible Sage's) and addiction (cigarettes and alcohol), and her bringing men home because she thinks her kids need a role model (which, if this song is about Sage's childhood, they finally got with Sage's stepfather). The song might not be so personal, but I think the addict mother interpretation makes a lot more sense than relationships ending, or a girlfriend, or any of the other interpretations I've seen. I think KeepSubjective is right about the personification of her addiction as "her friend" (and the speaker in the chorus)
This is one of those songs where I wonder how everyone else is getting the interpretations I keep hearing.
To me it seems, pretty obviously, to be about a mother (possible Sage's) and addiction (cigarettes and alcohol), and her bringing men home because she thinks her kids need a role model (which, if this song is about Sage's childhood, they finally got with Sage's stepfather). The song might not be so personal, but I think the addict mother interpretation makes a lot more sense than relationships ending, or a girlfriend, or any of the other interpretations I've seen. I think KeepSubjective is right about the personification of her addiction as "her friend" (and the speaker in the chorus)