I reckon the song's about the descent into drug addiction. The line "I'd shoot the sunshine into my veins", is a reference to the way heroin feels when it's injected. The lines
"And it's kind of funny
The way we're wearing anchors on our shirts
When being anchored aboard just feels like a curse"
are referring to the way that addiction is like being anchored, because you can't move anywhere in the world (get a job easily etc) with an addiction. However, many addicts are aware of their problem, thus creating the line "just feels like a curse".
The part about the "milligrams in my head" is obviously about drugs, legal or otherwise.
"Doing lines of dust and sweat
Off last night's stage" These lines are talking about snorting something, perhaps cocaine (due to it being a popular party drug and the fact that a slang word for it is "dust").
To sum up, I think it's about the fact that a LOT of famous music stars are "shackled" by their drug addiction and that they're surrounded by it all the time, therefore it's virtually pointless to give up,
I reckon the song's about the descent into drug addiction. The line "I'd shoot the sunshine into my veins", is a reference to the way heroin feels when it's injected. The lines "And it's kind of funny The way we're wearing anchors on our shirts When being anchored aboard just feels like a curse" are referring to the way that addiction is like being anchored, because you can't move anywhere in the world (get a job easily etc) with an addiction. However, many addicts are aware of their problem, thus creating the line "just feels like a curse".
The part about the "milligrams in my head" is obviously about drugs, legal or otherwise.
"Doing lines of dust and sweat Off last night's stage" These lines are talking about snorting something, perhaps cocaine (due to it being a popular party drug and the fact that a slang word for it is "dust").
To sum up, I think it's about the fact that a LOT of famous music stars are "shackled" by their drug addiction and that they're surrounded by it all the time, therefore it's virtually pointless to give up,