I have an opinion to entertain, how about this one.
It's about a destructive person, or at least they appear to be so, this is about a person (it happens to be a she in the song but I think it's emblematic of more than one person/situation) who maintains an appearance that they are deeply self-destructive because they would much rather be self-destructive than be conscious of their life as it's so much easier. The song is sung from a perspective that only looking at the lyrics, appears to be a bystander noticing some obvious issues in a person, but taking into account the context of the album, I believe that this person would rather assume that this person, who is the subject of the viewers obsession, is behaving in a self-destructive manner than accept that they have themselves better put together (whether they are better for the way they act or not). To sum up, a viewer thinks they see a person's self-destructive behavior but it's really a manifestation of their obsession and a need to see themselves as better-off than this "self-destructive person".
now taking into account this potential explanation, we extrapolate, could it be that the speaker sees this issue in themselves, that they'd rather internally chide another on their behavior than accept that they are conjuring up an entire scenario out of their heads? that there's no self-destructive relationship between the object of the speaker's obsession and sex, drugs, self-harm, or anything of the sort? could the speaker be writing an entire sad scenario based on their own need to put the object of their obsession on a lower level than them? to be able to perceive them as less capable of good decision making? Just an idea I figured I'd float out there.
I think that this song is less about a self-destructive person and the friend that they are unaware is suffering as a result of their behavior, and more about obsession, moral standards and their differences between different people, and an inability to face one's own evil or even so much as a desire to force one's own failings onto another, i.e. "I'm not conjuring up scenarios to cope with my inability to confess my feelings to this person, they're making decisions that I find morally abhorrent and will refrain from interacting with them because of"
I have an opinion to entertain, how about this one.
It's about a destructive person, or at least they appear to be so, this is about a person (it happens to be a she in the song but I think it's emblematic of more than one person/situation) who maintains an appearance that they are deeply self-destructive because they would much rather be self-destructive than be conscious of their life as it's so much easier. The song is sung from a perspective that only looking at the lyrics, appears to be a bystander noticing some obvious issues in a person, but taking into account the context of the album, I believe that this person would rather assume that this person, who is the subject of the viewers obsession, is behaving in a self-destructive manner than accept that they have themselves better put together (whether they are better for the way they act or not). To sum up, a viewer thinks they see a person's self-destructive behavior but it's really a manifestation of their obsession and a need to see themselves as better-off than this "self-destructive person".
now taking into account this potential explanation, we extrapolate, could it be that the speaker sees this issue in themselves, that they'd rather internally chide another on their behavior than accept that they are conjuring up an entire scenario out of their heads? that there's no self-destructive relationship between the object of the speaker's obsession and sex, drugs, self-harm, or anything of the sort? could the speaker be writing an entire sad scenario based on their own need to put the object of their obsession on a lower level than them? to be able to perceive them as less capable of good decision making? Just an idea I figured I'd float out there.
I think that this song is less about a self-destructive person and the friend that they are unaware is suffering as a result of their behavior, and more about obsession, moral standards and their differences between different people, and an inability to face one's own evil or even so much as a desire to force one's own failings onto another, i.e. "I'm not conjuring up scenarios to cope with my inability to confess my feelings to this person, they're making decisions that I find morally abhorrent and will refrain from interacting with them because of"