While I do see the drugs relation, I believe that it's a bit less about a bad relationship.
To me, it's about ending a relationship, whether it was good or bad to begin with. The denial one goes through when someone you love leaves.
The verses are very much oriented towards underlining that the singer is not alright at all, while the chorus is always contradicting the verses, about how much better the singer is.
I believe it's about the feeling you get when someone leaves you, you deny that it has hurt you, you are much better off without them anyway, but you know you are lying. Still, you try to tell yourself that it's all better now. It's a battle between the love you held for a person and the feeling that it didn't work out.
While I do see the drugs relation, I believe that it's a bit less about a bad relationship. To me, it's about ending a relationship, whether it was good or bad to begin with. The denial one goes through when someone you love leaves. The verses are very much oriented towards underlining that the singer is not alright at all, while the chorus is always contradicting the verses, about how much better the singer is. I believe it's about the feeling you get when someone leaves you, you deny that it has hurt you, you are much better off without them anyway, but you know you are lying. Still, you try to tell yourself that it's all better now. It's a battle between the love you held for a person and the feeling that it didn't work out.