I get the feeling this is about a semi-casual relationship which is good but can never last. It needs to be left behind but it's difficult cos it seems good whenever it's on.
Each time they get together it's great - "you feel a hundred times yourself," "wish everybody knew what's so great about you" - but a long term relationship is impossible - "your love is like a swamp." Every time is amazing but is concluded with "this is the last time," but they keep getting drawn back.
It maybe starts to become something more serious - "Oh, don't tell anyone I'm here
I've got Tylenol and beer
I was thinking that you'd call somebody
Closer to you"
This suggests to me the other person (Jenny?) has needed some help - the kind of situation which would ask for close friend or partner, and she has called him. He brings Tylenol and beer, hoping to bring a quick-fix to the problem, unlike a close friend who may offer more supportive measures. He doesn't want anyone to know so it won't seem like they're in a proper relationship. He thinks the situation would be someone else (someone closer)'s job.
He promises he wouldn't get sucked in (fall into a more meaningful relationship) and won't cry - he knows it's technically only a casual relationship but he does have feelings for her.
Together they are a mix of good and bad - "under prime," "vacant and kind" - and later in the song he is promising to no longer be vacant, be faking or waiting. Once he's out of the semi-casual relationship he can stop pretending not to care, or waiting for it to become something more. He can move on.
That's just what i took from it, but it's coloured by personal experience, and the fact that Jenny/Jennifer comes up in other songs (I think?) maybe suggests a more complex story.
I get the feeling this is about a semi-casual relationship which is good but can never last. It needs to be left behind but it's difficult cos it seems good whenever it's on.
Each time they get together it's great - "you feel a hundred times yourself," "wish everybody knew what's so great about you" - but a long term relationship is impossible - "your love is like a swamp." Every time is amazing but is concluded with "this is the last time," but they keep getting drawn back.
It maybe starts to become something more serious - "Oh, don't tell anyone I'm here I've got Tylenol and beer I was thinking that you'd call somebody Closer to you"
This suggests to me the other person (Jenny?) has needed some help - the kind of situation which would ask for close friend or partner, and she has called him. He brings Tylenol and beer, hoping to bring a quick-fix to the problem, unlike a close friend who may offer more supportive measures. He doesn't want anyone to know so it won't seem like they're in a proper relationship. He thinks the situation would be someone else (someone closer)'s job.
He promises he wouldn't get sucked in (fall into a more meaningful relationship) and won't cry - he knows it's technically only a casual relationship but he does have feelings for her.
Together they are a mix of good and bad - "under prime," "vacant and kind" - and later in the song he is promising to no longer be vacant, be faking or waiting. Once he's out of the semi-casual relationship he can stop pretending not to care, or waiting for it to become something more. He can move on.
That's just what i took from it, but it's coloured by personal experience, and the fact that Jenny/Jennifer comes up in other songs (I think?) maybe suggests a more complex story.
@bumcivilian sorry, but the lyrics are about Heroin, and the last time he thinks he will use (he being anyone, not the band leader)
@bumcivilian sorry, but the lyrics are about Heroin, and the last time he thinks he will use (he being anyone, not the band leader)