I feel like this is about addiction and how it subtly lures you into what you at first feel are higher states of consciousness. After a while though, you realize that you may have gone too far to recover on your own.
Know me broken by my master
Teach thee on child, love hereafter
[Let me tell you about my addiction (master) and how it broke me]
[I'll remind you that in the end, all there is, is love]
Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way
[I tried to recover, but relapsed. I thought it would be better/easier this time - please try to understand]
Drifting body, it's sole desertion
Flying, not yet quite the notion
[I love the feeling of being high, but I still know that it is slowly killing me]
Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way
[Going back to the addiction]
Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way
[Going back to the addiction]
Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home?
Have I gone?
Left you here alone?
[This is self reflection - asking yourself whether or not you've taken your addiction too far and have no way of recovering on your own.]
Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home?
Have I gone?
Left you here alone?
If I would, could you?
[If i WOULD (try), COULD (you do it physically) - makes me think this was Layne referring to heroin and the horrible physical pain of recovery. A question to himself about whether or not he could stand it if he tried.]
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I feel like this is about addiction and how it subtly lures you into what you at first feel are higher states of consciousness. After a while though, you realize that you may have gone too far to recover on your own.
Know me broken by my master Teach thee on child, love hereafter
[Let me tell you about my addiction (master) and how it broke me] [I'll remind you that in the end, all there is, is love]
Into the flood again Same old trip it was back then So I made a big mistake Try to see it once my way
[I tried to recover, but relapsed. I thought it would be better/easier this time - please try to understand]
Drifting body, it's sole desertion Flying, not yet quite the notion
[I love the feeling of being high, but I still know that it is slowly killing me]
Into the flood again Same old trip it was back then So I made a big mistake Try to see it once my way
[Going back to the addiction]
Into the flood again Same old trip it was back then So I made a big mistake Try to see it once my way
[Going back to the addiction]
Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home? Have I gone? Left you here alone?
[This is self reflection - asking yourself whether or not you've taken your addiction too far and have no way of recovering on your own.]
Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home? Have I gone?
Left you here alone? If I would, could you?
[If i WOULD (try), COULD (you do it physically) - makes me think this was Layne referring to heroin and the horrible physical pain of recovery. A question to himself about whether or not he could stand it if he tried.]