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illusionslies's avatar

Someone explain to me what this song is about?

Asked by illusionslies (586points) October 29th, 2013

bet your bottom dollar
it won’t last that long
hopeless outside the moat

shedding like a flower
honey on your breathe
god knows how far you’ll go

others tried to love you
claiming the free pass
cobwebs consume the postal code

wading through eternity
for the next clean dream
it’s 81 degrees

now you’re crawling back to me
it’s too late, it’s too late
the price we pay

skidrow’s gonna make you cry
skidrow’s gonna make you cry tonight
the homeless ain’t lonely
it’s sunset on high street

poverty is all we see
the homeless ain’t lonely
the homeless ain’t lonely tonight

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OneBadApple's avatar

It lost me at “cobwebs consume the postal code….”

zenvelo's avatar

So someone who has let themselves slide to the bottom is homeless or near to it,most like ly through alcohol or drug abuse. And the person singing is saying “you went on too long and now you can’t come back.”

And the singer is also telling the person what there future will be like.

josie's avatar

Its about selling product to a generation that tends to be clueless.

Adagio's avatar

I think song lyrics and poems are there to interpret any which way you like, just like any other work of art, nothing is set in concrete, if it speaks to you it speaks to you, period.

kaywizard's avatar

Do you have a link to this song? Is there a video that goes with it?

kaywizard's avatar

Okay, I found the song, its called Sunset on High Street.
As far as I can tell it’s about drugs/ drug use. “Bet your bottom dollar,it won’t last that long,” the feeling you get from using this drug, the high, it wont last long, then you’ll be left feeling hopeless outside looking for another hit. “Shedding like a flower,” is metaphor for the degenerative effects of drug use on the mind, body and soul or it could be a metaphor for the shakes you get when you need a next hit.
“Honey on your breathe,” is a metaphor for drugs, that sweet additive nectar that’s got you hooked. “God knows how far you’ll go,” only God knows what your capable of doing to score another hit, this generally means your capable of anything.
“Others tried to love you,” someone tried to show you love but you didn’t think you were worth it so you chose drugs instead. “Claiming the free pass,’ you took the easy way out, instead of facing your problems you tried to numb them. The cobwebs consume the postal codes lost me, sorry, unless it means being lost since postal codes are used for addresses and cobwebs can conceal things.
“Wading through eternity,” your wandering in a daze, “for the next clean dream,” is probably talking about getting clean or trying to go cold turkey, which is why it feels like “it’s 81 degrees,” you have the chills from the drugs trying to leave your system.
‘Now you’re crawling back to me,” your clean and you wanna go back home but “it’s too late, it’s too late,” too mush has happened because of your addiction so you can’t go back its“the price we pay.”
And the last two verse mention skidrow and poverty so now your homeless and jobless with no place to go and its because of your addiction, which is how some people end up on the streets.
This is my interpretation of the lyrics, I could be wrong but this is what I got from it.

Skylight's avatar

A moat is a protective devise. When you’re outside of that, you’re living outside the box, out of the confines of acceptable societal standards, and, you’re not making it.

Shedding like a flower, a flower drops its petals as part of the dying process. Bees, carriers of honey pollinate the flower, but it does no good when its dying. Your honey is the poison you take.

Others tried to love you, you let them in but they couldn’t stay. Now no one comes around. There’s cobwebs at your address. Its empty inside. Nobody’s home.

Lost in a drug haze, looking for the motivation to get clean. Its hot.

Now you want to come back but its too late. I’m done.

Homeless aren’t lonely because there are so many of them. But the sun is setting on ‘high’ street, the place you live on your constant high.

And those who live there with you aren’t lonely because there are so many of them.

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