A tricky one. Sounds like some personal / autobiographical stuff in there. The only thing that's fairly clear to me is that the "I know what you buy / I'm not gonna try" stuff is about some sort of illegal drug(s).
BTW, this absurd site currently says '"Getting Closer" as written by Billy Joel'. Billy Joel also has a song by that title, but he didn't write this one, dumbasses, and despite all the different "Edit Lyrics", "Edit Wiki", and comment options, there's no way to submit a correction to basic song data like that. Also, it's inappropriate that the site currently says 'Lyrics submitted by PersonMan92, edited by DHarkless', because my edits (I added the "call-and-response" lines) do not show up -- it said when I submitted them that they would have to be approved by the content licensor first, which I assume will never occur. In the meantime, lyrics.wikia.com has the missing lines.
There doesn't seem to be any way to edit old comments, so I'll just note here that thankfully, since my last comment, the site has been updated to allow you to edit the "Wiki", as they now refer to it, so I have just removed the spurious information about Billy Joel being the songwriter and have added the correct information. Also, I see I was being too pessimistic in thinking that the content licensor would never approve my updates to the lyrics, as I see that has since happened, so the "edited by DHarkless" is now accurate....
There doesn't seem to be any way to edit old comments, so I'll just note here that thankfully, since my last comment, the site has been updated to allow you to edit the "Wiki", as they now refer to it, so I have just removed the spurious information about Billy Joel being the songwriter and have added the correct information. Also, I see I was being too pessimistic in thinking that the content licensor would never approve my updates to the lyrics, as I see that has since happened, so the "edited by DHarkless" is now accurate.
A tricky one. Sounds like some personal / autobiographical stuff in there. The only thing that's fairly clear to me is that the "I know what you buy / I'm not gonna try" stuff is about some sort of illegal drug(s).
BTW, this absurd site currently says '"Getting Closer" as written by Billy Joel'. Billy Joel also has a song by that title, but he didn't write this one, dumbasses, and despite all the different "Edit Lyrics", "Edit Wiki", and comment options, there's no way to submit a correction to basic song data like that. Also, it's inappropriate that the site currently says 'Lyrics submitted by PersonMan92, edited by DHarkless', because my edits (I added the "call-and-response" lines) do not show up -- it said when I submitted them that they would have to be approved by the content licensor first, which I assume will never occur. In the meantime, lyrics.wikia.com has the missing lines.
There doesn't seem to be any way to edit old comments, so I'll just note here that thankfully, since my last comment, the site has been updated to allow you to edit the "Wiki", as they now refer to it, so I have just removed the spurious information about Billy Joel being the songwriter and have added the correct information. Also, I see I was being too pessimistic in thinking that the content licensor would never approve my updates to the lyrics, as I see that has since happened, so the "edited by DHarkless" is now accurate....
There doesn't seem to be any way to edit old comments, so I'll just note here that thankfully, since my last comment, the site has been updated to allow you to edit the "Wiki", as they now refer to it, so I have just removed the spurious information about Billy Joel being the songwriter and have added the correct information. Also, I see I was being too pessimistic in thinking that the content licensor would never approve my updates to the lyrics, as I see that has since happened, so the "edited by DHarkless" is now accurate.
Cool, they now allow longer usernames than when I joined, so the lyrics now say "edited by Dan Harkless" rather than "DHarkless".
Cool, they now allow longer usernames than when I joined, so the lyrics now say "edited by Dan Harkless" rather than "DHarkless".
Dan Harkless http://harkless.org/dan/
Dan Harkless http://harkless.org/dan/