The song is clearly about drug abuse and withdrawal sympthoms
I see that most people try to make sense of the song by intrepreting it by pieces and that make the interpretation not only complicated to do but also kind of wrong.
All the first part of the song is telling the hangover of heroine, he's trying to sleep and can"t. His shoes are dirty because the night after he was hanging out under the influence and only god knows where he has been. He is dirty and with hangover.
How does he solve this? With ubber band and a "gun" in the right hand. He is inyecting himself with heroine again. The "gun" is the srynge, the metaphor is based in that the srynges "shoot" the content, "a heroine shot". Rubber band in the left arm, and the heroine in the right to shoot himself the drug.
Then, obvously there is the Johnny Cash refference which is used to describe the type of pleasure that Scott indulge. He has an androgynous style, which we can see in his first solo album art, and in other songs like "Superhuman" by Velvet Revolver. He picturew himself as a man and a woman and enjoy tje pleasures of being the two at the same time. He is the man that is a woman, this is what hw does under the influence.
He need the drugs to stop thinking about the pñeasures that he indulge, like all of us.
The song is clearly about drug abuse and withdrawal sympthoms
I see that most people try to make sense of the song by intrepreting it by pieces and that make the interpretation not only complicated to do but also kind of wrong.
All the first part of the song is telling the hangover of heroine, he's trying to sleep and can"t. His shoes are dirty because the night after he was hanging out under the influence and only god knows where he has been. He is dirty and with hangover.
How does he solve this? With ubber band and a "gun" in the right hand. He is inyecting himself with heroine again. The "gun" is the srynge, the metaphor is based in that the srynges "shoot" the content, "a heroine shot". Rubber band in the left arm, and the heroine in the right to shoot himself the drug.
Then, obvously there is the Johnny Cash refference which is used to describe the type of pleasure that Scott indulge. He has an androgynous style, which we can see in his first solo album art, and in other songs like "Superhuman" by Velvet Revolver. He picturew himself as a man and a woman and enjoy tje pleasures of being the two at the same time. He is the man that is a woman, this is what hw does under the influence.
He need the drugs to stop thinking about the pñeasures that he indulge, like all of us.