Self Care Lyrics

Lyric discussion by weekendsammy 

Cover art for Self Care lyrics by Mac Miller

This song makes a number of references to the hard drugs Mac was battling with and that ultimately put him in the wood box.

The first half is about running around intoxicated and "sliding into" taxis and rolling out. And not being able to see. He can't and doesn't drive because he's messed up being out. Flying home in a taxi, windows down, very drunk. He admits he and the friends he is doing H have "fucked up". "Demons as big as a house". We know and he new he had gotten in too deep. He went "over the wall" from alcohol and pot to the purple juice codeine and then the big H. He can only look up to the nice fun life he could enjoy if he had not gotten addicted.

The second part of the song, is smooth and warm, he is writing from within one of his nightly opiate highs. "Oblivion" is the opiate high. He's stuck but he's rich enough to take enough to get high enough that it is pleasant and warm.It's a beautiful feeling, but it's deadly, but it feels good in the hard high. We know he was sitting home a lot mostly alone. But a few druggie friends coming by. Love? But she was not "down". Ariaria did not like his drug habit and repeated it often to him and always threatening to leave the last 6-12 months.

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