This song is about leaving behind your bad habits, like drugs or alcohol abuse. First, the narrator - alone for the first time in a long time - sees what he has done: 'My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb / And my piano crouched in the corner of my room / With all its teeth bared'.
Then he went for a walk, where he meets old temptations, the 'house' and the 'woman' - which are maybe a pub or something, where he met his old 'friends'. They are very tempting ('Now, you might think it wise to risk it all / Throw caution to the reckless wind'), but he thinks of someone he loves, the nurse, who had saved him ('But with her hot cocoa and her medication / My nurse had been my one salvation'). He knows he would dissapoint her when he falls back into his old habbits, so he turned home.
Then he cries because he knows he has vanquished his habits, which had to 'buried' with a lot of trouble.
This song is about leaving behind your bad habits, like drugs or alcohol abuse. First, the narrator - alone for the first time in a long time - sees what he has done: 'My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb / And my piano crouched in the corner of my room / With all its teeth bared'.
Then he went for a walk, where he meets old temptations, the 'house' and the 'woman' - which are maybe a pub or something, where he met his old 'friends'. They are very tempting ('Now, you might think it wise to risk it all / Throw caution to the reckless wind'), but he thinks of someone he loves, the nurse, who had saved him ('But with her hot cocoa and her medication / My nurse had been my one salvation'). He knows he would dissapoint her when he falls back into his old habbits, so he turned home.
Then he cries because he knows he has vanquished his habits, which had to 'buried' with a lot of trouble.