it's not so much about falling in love with drugs, but the narrator's recognition of the potentially devastating effects of drugs, and his desire to wean himself off drugs.
this song is in two parts. the first illustrates the effects of drugs, both fantastic and confusing, while in the second he expresses his yearning to end his dependence on drugs.
the song begins with his hallucinations. he describes the 'melting asphalt', which is really him imagining the ground melting away beneath his feet, then he asks if the drugs are still 'coursing through [his] veins' or if he's confused it with 'rain'. so he's on a real funky trippy trip, then we start to see the sinister side of taking drugs:
'are you still carving out a man?'
this could mean two things:
moulding the character of a person into something finer and nobler
cutting out and discarding the insides (mind, heart, soul) of a human and leaving behind only a husk of a person
I believe the lyrics refer to number 2 here. he fears that drug addiction will hollow him out and cause a gradual decay in his lifestyle -- hit, waiting for a hit, hit, waiting for a hit.
now we move onto the second part of the song. he wants to 'fall out of love with you'; 'you' presumably refers to the sensations that the drugs provide him with. he's seen through the 'imagined' 'magic', and now knows that it's nothing but the release of chemicals, though he still doesn't understand the full ramifications of drug-taking, as is shown when he says he doesn't 'pretend to know what's inside [them]'.
it's interesting that the title is 'fallout' (noun) instead of 'fall out' (verb). 'fallout' means 'adverse side-effects of a situation', which again refers to the sinister side of drug-taking. he juxtaposes this beautifully against his description of a trip.
it's not so much about falling in love with drugs, but the narrator's recognition of the potentially devastating effects of drugs, and his desire to wean himself off drugs.
this song is in two parts. the first illustrates the effects of drugs, both fantastic and confusing, while in the second he expresses his yearning to end his dependence on drugs.
the song begins with his hallucinations. he describes the 'melting asphalt', which is really him imagining the ground melting away beneath his feet, then he asks if the drugs are still 'coursing through [his] veins' or if he's confused it with 'rain'. so he's on a real funky trippy trip, then we start to see the sinister side of taking drugs:
'are you still carving out a man?'
this could mean two things:
I believe the lyrics refer to number 2 here. he fears that drug addiction will hollow him out and cause a gradual decay in his lifestyle -- hit, waiting for a hit, hit, waiting for a hit.
now we move onto the second part of the song. he wants to 'fall out of love with you'; 'you' presumably refers to the sensations that the drugs provide him with. he's seen through the 'imagined' 'magic', and now knows that it's nothing but the release of chemicals, though he still doesn't understand the full ramifications of drug-taking, as is shown when he says he doesn't 'pretend to know what's inside [them]'.
it's interesting that the title is 'fallout' (noun) instead of 'fall out' (verb). 'fallout' means 'adverse side-effects of a situation', which again refers to the sinister side of drug-taking. he juxtaposes this beautifully against his description of a trip.