There do seem to be two perspectives in this song that make it confusing. However, I'm not sure he's actually talking to two different people: the woman- the object of his desires and maybe a friend with whom he discusses women. One possibility is that all of the lyrics are directed only at the woman, but that his perspective in life changes. I know it's strange, but leap with me for a moment.
In the beginning of the song, he knows that he's a famous singer of a well-known band. The woman seems to be a groupie that he may or may not have slept with (I suspect that he has), but that he doesn't really see as any great gift ('I let the wheel of fortune spin' = I didn't go after you in any meaningful way when I had the chance, because I was just running through my luck and my women as a famous rockstar), because he can get a woman any time he wants. He keeps rubbing this idea that he can get anyone anytime into the head of the groupie- probably while he's with her and then later...
The line 'I touched your hand before the crowd started rushing in' seems to have two meanings- 1) that he selected her as the groupie from the crowd- but then, later- the crowd started rushing in but not for him- for HER- as though she later developed some kind of fame on her own that left him out in the cold.
The rest of the lyrics seem to indicate that the life perspective of the singer has changed and that now he knows what it's like to be a groupie to a famous person that you can't really have. There are still all of these little digs at the object of his desire, though, because he still has a massive ego and wants to remind her that he can still get anyone anytime he wants... but obviously not... he can't seem to get back the woman he realized he wanted when it was possibly too late.
Also, 'high on you' seems to have a couple meanings- 1) the poetic meaning of just feeling the euphoria and craziness of being in love with someone and 2) maybe the idea that he's literally doing drugs to try to get that feeling again that he had when he was briefly with her, because the other women that he can easily get just aren't doing it for him anymore.
@thirteencats I'm responding to my own interpretation, because I'm new here and can't figure out how to edit my original comment. The line 'I touched your hand before the crowd started rushing in' also seems to be a dig at the woman as though to remind her that HE touched her hand before anyone else did. He's trying to remind her of when the tables had previously been turned that had him as the powerful one and the woman as the groupie wanting him.
@thirteencats I'm responding to my own interpretation, because I'm new here and can't figure out how to edit my original comment. The line 'I touched your hand before the crowd started rushing in' also seems to be a dig at the woman as though to remind her that HE touched her hand before anyone else did. He's trying to remind her of when the tables had previously been turned that had him as the powerful one and the woman as the groupie wanting him.
There do seem to be two perspectives in this song that make it confusing. However, I'm not sure he's actually talking to two different people: the woman- the object of his desires and maybe a friend with whom he discusses women. One possibility is that all of the lyrics are directed only at the woman, but that his perspective in life changes. I know it's strange, but leap with me for a moment.
In the beginning of the song, he knows that he's a famous singer of a well-known band. The woman seems to be a groupie that he may or may not have slept with (I suspect that he has), but that he doesn't really see as any great gift ('I let the wheel of fortune spin' = I didn't go after you in any meaningful way when I had the chance, because I was just running through my luck and my women as a famous rockstar), because he can get a woman any time he wants. He keeps rubbing this idea that he can get anyone anytime into the head of the groupie- probably while he's with her and then later...
The line 'I touched your hand before the crowd started rushing in' seems to have two meanings- 1) that he selected her as the groupie from the crowd- but then, later- the crowd started rushing in but not for him- for HER- as though she later developed some kind of fame on her own that left him out in the cold.
The rest of the lyrics seem to indicate that the life perspective of the singer has changed and that now he knows what it's like to be a groupie to a famous person that you can't really have. There are still all of these little digs at the object of his desire, though, because he still has a massive ego and wants to remind her that he can still get anyone anytime he wants... but obviously not... he can't seem to get back the woman he realized he wanted when it was possibly too late.
Also, 'high on you' seems to have a couple meanings- 1) the poetic meaning of just feeling the euphoria and craziness of being in love with someone and 2) maybe the idea that he's literally doing drugs to try to get that feeling again that he had when he was briefly with her, because the other women that he can easily get just aren't doing it for him anymore.
@thirteencats I'm responding to my own interpretation, because I'm new here and can't figure out how to edit my original comment. The line 'I touched your hand before the crowd started rushing in' also seems to be a dig at the woman as though to remind her that HE touched her hand before anyone else did. He's trying to remind her of when the tables had previously been turned that had him as the powerful one and the woman as the groupie wanting him.
@thirteencats I'm responding to my own interpretation, because I'm new here and can't figure out how to edit my original comment. The line 'I touched your hand before the crowd started rushing in' also seems to be a dig at the woman as though to remind her that HE touched her hand before anyone else did. He's trying to remind her of when the tables had previously been turned that had him as the powerful one and the woman as the groupie wanting him.