I can see everyone's interpretation making sense here, but for me this song will always be about suicide by gunshot. "One way in, no way out." "I saw the mess you left up in the east bedroom."
I this interpretation is possible. Death by suicide or injury, injury, or arrest are also, strictly speaking, compatible with the lyrics. The only thing that gives me pause about the suicide angle is the "a tiger's never gonna change it's stripes" line that's sandwiched into the part about the east bedroom. It seems the mess he's referring to is the result on an ongoing trend in the addressed character. I would say this makes more since in a situation where the bedroom was simply trashed in a moment of rage (this was my initial mental image). Alternatively...
I this interpretation is possible. Death by suicide or injury, injury, or arrest are also, strictly speaking, compatible with the lyrics. The only thing that gives me pause about the suicide angle is the "a tiger's never gonna change it's stripes" line that's sandwiched into the part about the east bedroom. It seems the mess he's referring to is the result on an ongoing trend in the addressed character. I would say this makes more since in a situation where the bedroom was simply trashed in a moment of rage (this was my initial mental image). Alternatively this could be about the mess caused by a meth lab explosion which may have killed or maimed the person he's "talking" to. This all to foreseeable conclusion to continually cooking something like meth could make the tiger never changing it's stripes about a person who, no matter what can't stop cooking. This also makes sense of the "one way in, no way out" line since the character got into making meth and was at some point going to die doing it.
I can see everyone's interpretation making sense here, but for me this song will always be about suicide by gunshot. "One way in, no way out." "I saw the mess you left up in the east bedroom."
I this interpretation is possible. Death by suicide or injury, injury, or arrest are also, strictly speaking, compatible with the lyrics. The only thing that gives me pause about the suicide angle is the "a tiger's never gonna change it's stripes" line that's sandwiched into the part about the east bedroom. It seems the mess he's referring to is the result on an ongoing trend in the addressed character. I would say this makes more since in a situation where the bedroom was simply trashed in a moment of rage (this was my initial mental image). Alternatively...
I this interpretation is possible. Death by suicide or injury, injury, or arrest are also, strictly speaking, compatible with the lyrics. The only thing that gives me pause about the suicide angle is the "a tiger's never gonna change it's stripes" line that's sandwiched into the part about the east bedroom. It seems the mess he's referring to is the result on an ongoing trend in the addressed character. I would say this makes more since in a situation where the bedroom was simply trashed in a moment of rage (this was my initial mental image). Alternatively this could be about the mess caused by a meth lab explosion which may have killed or maimed the person he's "talking" to. This all to foreseeable conclusion to continually cooking something like meth could make the tiger never changing it's stripes about a person who, no matter what can't stop cooking. This also makes sense of the "one way in, no way out" line since the character got into making meth and was at some point going to die doing it.