Straightforward lyrics, plus some vague ones.
Nowhere to be and nothing to do -- isolation, like a prehistoric monolith standing stone (or menhir/lith). The subject is alienated from "baby", who isn't going along with the plan. Occasionally, standing stones are found together, as in a henge; even with "you're standing next to me...feeling we're bound to be alone", stones alone together.
The subject wants to "get stoned", meaning intoxicated. I'm guessing alcohol. Getting drunk can cause ethylic "acetate" poisoning (a hangover), which is a bitter end, especially after intoxication "past the point of contemplation". "Another way", without getting drunk, can cause an alcoholic to suffer delirium tremens, which are "bitter shakes", but "a better way than those" drug abuse "mistakes". Either way, the subject will "live without a fate" "in quiet desperation", still alone like the standing stone.
Straightforward lyrics, plus some vague ones. Nowhere to be and nothing to do -- isolation, like a prehistoric monolith standing stone (or menhir/lith). The subject is alienated from "baby", who isn't going along with the plan. Occasionally, standing stones are found together, as in a henge; even with "you're standing next to me...feeling we're bound to be alone", stones alone together.
The subject wants to "get stoned", meaning intoxicated. I'm guessing alcohol. Getting drunk can cause ethylic "acetate" poisoning (a hangover), which is a bitter end, especially after intoxication "past the point of contemplation". "Another way", without getting drunk, can cause an alcoholic to suffer delirium tremens, which are "bitter shakes", but "a better way than those" drug abuse "mistakes". Either way, the subject will "live without a fate" "in quiet desperation", still alone like the standing stone.