Lyric discussion by willowhazel 

Cover art for Pain lyrics by Jimmy Eat World

i can't make up my mind about what this song means. i mean, yeah, it's a drug addiction (seriously, how many songs do they have about drugs??), but i don't know what to think about the girl. maybe he's hallucinating about her. i don't actually know what this song means to me. i don't even know what i'm doing on this website if i'm too much of an idiot to have an interpretation.

I actually thought the same thing and had the same questions, thats why I came here. Your not an idiot. Or we both are. So you are not alone.

@willowhazel It's a metaphor. He's describing the drugs as being inauthentic, "a lie", like a kiss with open eyes, that's all.