I think this is a very beautiful song that deals with love and the cyclical nature of life/death. The concept is just a metaphor. Weeds=People. It's like saying "if I was a weed, you would be my rock," which is a positive thing I think. Saying someone is your rock typically means that that person is what keeps you anchored, grounded, someone you can depend on. "You're the dirt I breath" is saying you are what keeps me alive. It's about someone he loves. The first part of the song reminds me of being aware at your own funeral. Your dead and thinking to yourself "I could have told you all that I love you." This represents remorse and regret. Death also ties in to the idea of "Life like weeds" because when we die we will literally become dirt which weeds will grow out of. This has a double meaning. The one I just described and in the sense that life will continue on after you die and that even though in this life you may only be a weed (metaphor for someone who's shunned, viewed of as not being beautiful, a misfit) something beautiful may still come from you. This song actually reminds me a lot of two songs by a different MM, Marilyn Manson. First "The Nobodies" "Today I'm dirty and I want to be pretty, tomorrow I know I'm just dirt." Similar death references and also in the video it shows Manson buried up to his neck in dirt with a flower growing out of his head (something beautiful growing from something ugly i.e. dirt). And secondly "The Man that you Fear" where he says "Pinch the head off collapse me like a weed, someone had to go this far." Again the weed references and meaning something unwanted.
I think this is a very beautiful song that deals with love and the cyclical nature of life/death. The concept is just a metaphor. Weeds=People. It's like saying "if I was a weed, you would be my rock," which is a positive thing I think. Saying someone is your rock typically means that that person is what keeps you anchored, grounded, someone you can depend on. "You're the dirt I breath" is saying you are what keeps me alive. It's about someone he loves. The first part of the song reminds me of being aware at your own funeral. Your dead and thinking to yourself "I could have told you all that I love you." This represents remorse and regret. Death also ties in to the idea of "Life like weeds" because when we die we will literally become dirt which weeds will grow out of. This has a double meaning. The one I just described and in the sense that life will continue on after you die and that even though in this life you may only be a weed (metaphor for someone who's shunned, viewed of as not being beautiful, a misfit) something beautiful may still come from you. This song actually reminds me a lot of two songs by a different MM, Marilyn Manson. First "The Nobodies" "Today I'm dirty and I want to be pretty, tomorrow I know I'm just dirt." Similar death references and also in the video it shows Manson buried up to his neck in dirt with a flower growing out of his head (something beautiful growing from something ugly i.e. dirt). And secondly "The Man that you Fear" where he says "Pinch the head off collapse me like a weed, someone had to go this far." Again the weed references and meaning something unwanted.