Skin Up Pin Up Lyrics

Lyric discussion by pijuyo 

Cover art for Skin Up Pin Up lyrics by Mansun

Somebody? I like this song a lot, and I would like to know what it means.

If it says "he's my only passion", does it mean it's somethiong about gay sex?

Pick up a lady, tin foil in waiting, does this talk about the shiny costumes worn by drag queens or whores?

"Sniff on this" "snivel that", says there it refers to amphetamines.

@pijuyo I think it is talking about doing a combination of methods and heroin.

@pijuyo The song is about drug use. skin-up = rolling weed (maybe crack in early 90s slang?) The sniffing references = cocaine and meth amphetamine probably a reference to meth. kissing = metaphor used in British music for cocaine and heroin usage (Seal's Kiss from a rose, New Order's The Perfect Kiss). All consuming self inducing = Powerful drug usage Straight up my nose = cocaine or meth Pick up a lady = Pick up cocaine or crack. Tin foil in waiting = smoking crack/coke is done off foil. Skeletina = Seems like a weird reference to cocaine = a female skeleton referencing the earlier slang, and also bone...