I hate everyone who says this is about one night stands!
"Just the thought of those sweet ladies
Sends a shiver through my veins"
This lyric is odd to me if it is indeed a reference to women. What about a shiver in your veins is sexual?
Now, a slang term for HEROIN is "Sweet Lady H".
Obviously, heroin is injected in your veins.
Makes sense to me that this is a DRUG REFERENCE not a reference to actual ladies.
So, superficially its a song about drugs.
The song title "Goodbye stranger" simply acknowledges the 2 versions of himself that he experiences, the sober version and the addicted version. So when he does drugs he says goodbye to his other self... Or vice versa.
On another level its a story about progressing in life to a different level of thinking.
Many of the lyrics hint at something grander than a simple struggle with an addiction. It may be that the writer draws a parallel between life and death and the struggle with addiction, seeing himself in victory over addiction as a self-savior.
It's possible that the stranger is this self-savior, a projection of himself into the role of Jesus, or even Jesus.
In the end, no matter what we do, we must choose, we must change, we must say goodbye to our child hood, to our lost loved ones, and eventually to life itself.
In the end, Goodbye stranger can mean so many things, but it means only one.
I hate everyone who says this is about one night stands!
"Just the thought of those sweet ladies Sends a shiver through my veins"
This lyric is odd to me if it is indeed a reference to women. What about a shiver in your veins is sexual?
Now, a slang term for HEROIN is "Sweet Lady H".
Obviously, heroin is injected in your veins.
Makes sense to me that this is a DRUG REFERENCE not a reference to actual ladies.
So, superficially its a song about drugs.
The song title "Goodbye stranger" simply acknowledges the 2 versions of himself that he experiences, the sober version and the addicted version. So when he does drugs he says goodbye to his other self... Or vice versa.
On another level its a story about progressing in life to a different level of thinking.
Many of the lyrics hint at something grander than a simple struggle with an addiction. It may be that the writer draws a parallel between life and death and the struggle with addiction, seeing himself in victory over addiction as a self-savior.
It's possible that the stranger is this self-savior, a projection of himself into the role of Jesus, or even Jesus.
In the end, no matter what we do, we must choose, we must change, we must say goodbye to our child hood, to our lost loved ones, and eventually to life itself.
In the end, Goodbye stranger can mean so many things, but it means only one.
Say goodbye to YOURSELF.
@modulo1118 I agree with you! I think he is saying goodbye to the previous version of himself.
@modulo1118 I agree with you! I think he is saying goodbye to the previous version of himself.