OK, woke up (in 2017) with this stuck in my head . . . looked this up and was actually surprised by the dumbness I read.
People, there are multiple interpretations of things! Yes, its about the wedding of Idol's character's (real or imagined) sister to someone else after being knocked up - as he claimed in the interview. Yes, the incest references are deliberate: Idol is not an idiot, and knows exactly how people hear lines like "Hey little sister, who's the one you want?"
And, above all, yes it is about a couple (related or no) using drugs. Freebase cocaine/crack, not heroin. "White wedding" is and was actually slang for a coke relapse. A "shotgun" is blowing exhaled smoke into someone's mouth when you are doing drugs so as not to waste any of the hit - this has been in common use for decades. He walks in and sees her with the the stuff after an attempt to quit: "What have you done?" If shes getting high, so is her "only one". He decides to join her, sharing the hit intimately: "shotgun". They relapse: "its a nice day to start again". It feels good . He's "been away for so long.". Contemplating their actions, and possibly their relationship, he concludes that "there's nothing pure in this world" so you might as well "look for something else in this world" (via momentary pleasure) . . . and Idol is certainly enough of a confirmed hedonist to have this interpretation. The "vice and wish" line also supports this nicely. The wedding is figuarative, and the "sister" probably (but not necessarily) is, too.
OK, woke up (in 2017) with this stuck in my head . . . looked this up and was actually surprised by the dumbness I read.
People, there are multiple interpretations of things! Yes, its about the wedding of Idol's character's (real or imagined) sister to someone else after being knocked up - as he claimed in the interview. Yes, the incest references are deliberate: Idol is not an idiot, and knows exactly how people hear lines like "Hey little sister, who's the one you want?"
And, above all, yes it is about a couple (related or no) using drugs. Freebase cocaine/crack, not heroin. "White wedding" is and was actually slang for a coke relapse. A "shotgun" is blowing exhaled smoke into someone's mouth when you are doing drugs so as not to waste any of the hit - this has been in common use for decades. He walks in and sees her with the the stuff after an attempt to quit: "What have you done?" If shes getting high, so is her "only one". He decides to join her, sharing the hit intimately: "shotgun". They relapse: "its a nice day to start again". It feels good . He's "been away for so long.". Contemplating their actions, and possibly their relationship, he concludes that "there's nothing pure in this world" so you might as well "look for something else in this world" (via momentary pleasure) . . . and Idol is certainly enough of a confirmed hedonist to have this interpretation. The "vice and wish" line also supports this nicely. The wedding is figuarative, and the "sister" probably (but not necessarily) is, too.
And that's probably all there is to say about it.