The actual meaning is about heroin. To be specific, the most expensive heroin in the world. It's imported from China and is a white color, hence the name 'snow'. Anthony used to be a major heroin addict, and used to buy this type of heroin all the time. He also used to try hide it by injecting inbetween his toes, as it says it on the track, 'running through a field...' Being high, 'where all my track will be concealed...' Hiding the marks from injecting.
@ChefCookinabob I think you got it more than anyone else here. People like to philosophize and talk about quoting Socrates, but an ex addict, or an addict, only thinks about one thing, and one thing only, especially when he or she is trying to stay clean. Tracks IMO are track marks, road from the sea to the sky could be PCH (there is also a road near Vancouver called Sea to Sky) and the "Listen what I say-oh" may be all attempts of the character to justify his lies, or even his sponsor. "All the channels have broken down"...
@ChefCookinabob I think you got it more than anyone else here. People like to philosophize and talk about quoting Socrates, but an ex addict, or an addict, only thinks about one thing, and one thing only, especially when he or she is trying to stay clean. Tracks IMO are track marks, road from the sea to the sky could be PCH (there is also a road near Vancouver called Sea to Sky) and the "Listen what I say-oh" may be all attempts of the character to justify his lies, or even his sponsor. "All the channels have broken down" - he is in recovery so he does not have his contacts anymore, but somebody finds one in the end (Now you bring it up
I'm gonna ring it up). He has moments of clarity through the song (When it's killing me, what do I really need, all that I need to look inside") but in the end "There is no way out" so he goes for the fall. This is obviously my reading and interpretation of the song, to me it sounds clear as a bell. Sometimes it's all so clear and we need to see much more into it, innit?
The actual meaning is about heroin. To be specific, the most expensive heroin in the world. It's imported from China and is a white color, hence the name 'snow'. Anthony used to be a major heroin addict, and used to buy this type of heroin all the time. He also used to try hide it by injecting inbetween his toes, as it says it on the track, 'running through a field...' Being high, 'where all my track will be concealed...' Hiding the marks from injecting.
@ChefCookinabob I think you got it more than anyone else here. People like to philosophize and talk about quoting Socrates, but an ex addict, or an addict, only thinks about one thing, and one thing only, especially when he or she is trying to stay clean. Tracks IMO are track marks, road from the sea to the sky could be PCH (there is also a road near Vancouver called Sea to Sky) and the "Listen what I say-oh" may be all attempts of the character to justify his lies, or even his sponsor. "All the channels have broken down"...
@ChefCookinabob I think you got it more than anyone else here. People like to philosophize and talk about quoting Socrates, but an ex addict, or an addict, only thinks about one thing, and one thing only, especially when he or she is trying to stay clean. Tracks IMO are track marks, road from the sea to the sky could be PCH (there is also a road near Vancouver called Sea to Sky) and the "Listen what I say-oh" may be all attempts of the character to justify his lies, or even his sponsor. "All the channels have broken down" - he is in recovery so he does not have his contacts anymore, but somebody finds one in the end (Now you bring it up I'm gonna ring it up). He has moments of clarity through the song (When it's killing me, what do I really need, all that I need to look inside") but in the end "There is no way out" so he goes for the fall. This is obviously my reading and interpretation of the song, to me it sounds clear as a bell. Sometimes it's all so clear and we need to see much more into it, innit?