Jaz wrote:femzy wrote:Jaz you are trying to make it be about one or the other and that is where your logic fails. It's not about one or the other, its about both. Ultimately it is a metaphor for addiction whether that be a woman or a pill or both.
Actually, that's not what I've been trying to prove. I'm just trying to explain to him that there's many lines that don't fit the metaphor he was saying the entire song is about.
Idk how he can possibly argue that it's about both, and then claim verse 3 is from the perspective of drugs. It's a flawed argument and I don't intend to let him use it.
The third verse especially can be applied to drugs. Every line in that song can be used towards drugs just as much as it can be used towards a woman. Using the logic that drugs didn't want him no more, wanted to leave him by attempting to kill him, and he fought back and snapped the drugs neck (meaning he survived and sent the drugs packing by getting sober) I don't see how you can't take the third verse to be a metaphor for drugs. Maybe you just don't get it. In the end he put the gun to his temple and blew his brains out, because ultimately the struggle is with himself whether its about women or drugs the addiction is himself and he has to kill that part of himself off in order to survive.
Whether its from the perspective of himself, or of the addiction its still him in his head so it doesn't seem like a real big reach that it could indeed be from the perspective of the addiction.
The story of a woman leaving him after a year and six months is more than likely fictional, but it's told in a way to complete the concept of the song which he executed brilliantly. It's as much of a concept song as Stan is, but left open to listener interpretation. It's a love song to addiction. Addiction to a woman, addiction to pills they play out the same way and both love and pills have been destructive to him and his life. The debate and speculation on the song is exactly as intended which shows the level of skill in his story telling.