Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life

One of my favorite songs from the 90s, and I only recently found out (from wikipedia) that the song is totally about drugs. The song is about a drug user’s dark descent into crystal meth addiction.

Check out the lyrics and drug references (taken from wikipedia):

• “I’m packed and I’m holding” (The user is high — nose is “packed” — and has meth on his person — “holding”)
• “Chop another line like a coda with a curse” (A “line” of meth is chopped with a razor blade, then snorted — “coda with a curse” because it is done repeatedly in an attempt to avoid a meth “crash”)
• “Doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break” (”Crystal meth” is often censored, or blurred)
• “And then I bumped up, I took the hit that I was given” (Bump is a popular term for small line)
• “I’m scared, I’m not coming down” (The user is so wired that he’s getting paranoid)
• “…she said she was crashing” (The user is losing the “high” and being overcome by depression and fatigue)
• “She’s got her jaws now locked down in a smile” (Meth may cause a user’s jaw to lock up)
• “I was taking sips of it to my nose” (The user was snorting bumps)
• “I won’t come down” (The user doesn’t want to lose the high, ever)
• “I want something else” (The user wants something other than meth to get him through life)
• “I want nothing else” (The original chorus opening, in which the user wants nothing other than meth to get him through life. This was changed to “I want something else” for unclear reasons.)

You’ll never look at the song the way again …

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