I don't get why everyone is so literal here... what actually happened/inspired the lyrics, and what it's actually about, are two very different things.
This is in a way Stradlin's way of saying "I've had enough - I need to get out". He's taking the absurdity of the domniatrix event and mapping to the absurdity of rock 'n roll excess and what it's done to him and the band.
"Time went by and it became a joke
We just needed more and more fulfilling"
If he wrote this while on heroin, it was probably around the time he decided he needed to clean. Which he did - and subsequently left the band.
"Once you made that money it costs more now
It might cost a lot more than you'd think"
Definitely not a happy, joking thought here.
"I just found a million dollars
that someone forgot"
Notice the 3rd person observation - he's making a distinction between his sober moment (the person who found the check) and drugged out self (the person who had lost it for months in a daze).
"It's days like this that push me o'er the brinks"
Days being moments of clarity where you realize you're in a bad place.
I don't get why everyone is so literal here... what actually happened/inspired the lyrics, and what it's actually about, are two very different things.
This is in a way Stradlin's way of saying "I've had enough - I need to get out". He's taking the absurdity of the domniatrix event and mapping to the absurdity of rock 'n roll excess and what it's done to him and the band.
"Time went by and it became a joke We just needed more and more fulfilling"
If he wrote this while on heroin, it was probably around the time he decided he needed to clean. Which he did - and subsequently left the band.
"Once you made that money it costs more now It might cost a lot more than you'd think"
Definitely not a happy, joking thought here.
"I just found a million dollars that someone forgot"
Notice the 3rd person observation - he's making a distinction between his sober moment (the person who found the check) and drugged out self (the person who had lost it for months in a daze).
"It's days like this that push me o'er the brinks"
Days being moments of clarity where you realize you're in a bad place.