If you have ever suffered heroin addiction as I have for over a decade this song jus seems to be quite clearly referring to The rattle (withdrawal) from it but although everything from the title to the lyrics about laxatives and antacids and anemia are direct references to it the whole song makes reference to its effects on your life whilst maintaining less literal interpretations that can relate to depression and the monotony of life that I think is quite intentional to open up the application of its meaning and relevance to a much wider spectrum of life and observation of life and suffering
If you have ever suffered heroin addiction as I have for over a decade this song jus seems to be quite clearly referring to The rattle (withdrawal) from it but although everything from the title to the lyrics about laxatives and antacids and anemia are direct references to it the whole song makes reference to its effects on your life whilst maintaining less literal interpretations that can relate to depression and the monotony of life that I think is quite intentional to open up the application of its meaning and relevance to a much wider spectrum of life and observation of life and suffering