This song is clearly about drug use with one of her boyfriends. Some of the lyrics are open to a degree of creative interpretation, with "palm trees in black and white" perhaps referring to the appearance of rising smoke from a pipe or other device, and "the last thing I saw before I died" being the moment before taking a hit causes her to blackout or perhaps overdose. "Jumping" is another term for tripping/getting high, the "grin of a very old man" refers to meth mouth... there's not all that much depth here, but it's certainly a catchy song and certainly one of her best pieces of pop before Interscope came along and made everything sound like Video Games.
This song is clearly about drug use with one of her boyfriends. Some of the lyrics are open to a degree of creative interpretation, with "palm trees in black and white" perhaps referring to the appearance of rising smoke from a pipe or other device, and "the last thing I saw before I died" being the moment before taking a hit causes her to blackout or perhaps overdose. "Jumping" is another term for tripping/getting high, the "grin of a very old man" refers to meth mouth... there's not all that much depth here, but it's certainly a catchy song and certainly one of her best pieces of pop before Interscope came along and made everything sound like Video Games.