Much like beetlebum from the same album, I think this is another song about Damon's stint in the late 90s as a heroin user. To me it seems like an abstract insight into why he did it and the way it made him feel. "Give me all your stuff, until I can't get up. Watch the whole world freeze, counting tin cans in our sleep" confirms it for me in a literal sense, though I think from the beginning there's a very woozy, opiate theme - "all I want to be, is washed up by the sea". Maybe the Death Star is a symbol of his responsibilities and struggles in life be it his identity as a pop star, and he just wants to escape from... Or possibly the Death Star is heroin itself.
Much like beetlebum from the same album, I think this is another song about Damon's stint in the late 90s as a heroin user. To me it seems like an abstract insight into why he did it and the way it made him feel. "Give me all your stuff, until I can't get up. Watch the whole world freeze, counting tin cans in our sleep" confirms it for me in a literal sense, though I think from the beginning there's a very woozy, opiate theme - "all I want to be, is washed up by the sea". Maybe the Death Star is a symbol of his responsibilities and struggles in life be it his identity as a pop star, and he just wants to escape from... Or possibly the Death Star is heroin itself.