'ten thousand promises, ten thousand ways to lose.'

'I saw the evidence the crimson soaking through'Įventually, the friend realized that the addict had reverted back to his old ways and was trying to hide it. This, to me, seems to suggest that the addict may have been clean at one point but eventually had a relapse, unbeknownst to the friend. 'you woke the devil that I thought you'd left behind' The friend of the addict felt betrayed because he had come clean to him about his own problems and tried to fix them (Perhaps he had been suffering from a drug addition as well and wanted to quit), yet the addict refused to come clean himself, let alone change his ways. 'You hid your skeletons, when I had shown you mine' If you want to understand why I feel this way, though, then here's how I interpret the lyrics: Long story short, I feel that this song is about being a friend of someone who had relapsed into an addiction and died from it - most likely drugs. My InterpretationI think this song's lyrics have one of the more straightforward meanings on Living Things, but it's still a powerful song.

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