Lyric discussion by amusedbymusic 

Cover art for Lydia lyrics by Highly Suspect

! Trigger warning for any addicts (visual metaphor)... !

"I pick up a gun" - literally a rig/needle/sharp/thing IV users use to inject "aim for the sun" - life and all the planets revolve around the sun, so in this way, it's a metaphor for our brain or blood in our veins (he's literally aiming for the vein with the 'gun') "and shoot" - self-explanatory but you get the idea.

Ah, just saw the video of Johnny describing what the song was actually about, an ex-gf, so perhaps the "gun" is his decision to break it off with her, "aim for the sun" is his choice of words and "shoot" is finally ending things with her. But I still like my other interpretation too

Ah, just saw the video of Johnny describing what the song was actually about, an ex-gf, so perhaps the "gun" is his decision to break it off with her, "aim for the sun" is his choice of words and "shoot" is finally ending things with her. But I still like my other interpretation too

Ah, just saw the video of Johnny describing what the song was actually about, an ex-gf, so perhaps the "gun" is his decision to break it off with her, "aim for the sun" is his choice of words and "shoot" is finally ending things with her. But I still like my other interpretation too