Amphetamine
Addiction's Tempting Call: Joker's Hand's 'Amphetamine' Meaning
Lyrics
Hey
Expression of greeting or attention
Baby are you coming over
Asking if someone is coming over
Tell me won't you set me free
Request to be set free or liberated
Don't wanna be alone tonight
Expressing a desire not to be alone tonight
Hey
Repetition of greeting
Sneak me in through your window
Asking to be snuck in through a window
Kill the lights so no one will see
Suggesting turning off lights for privacy
It's time to make you come alive
Indication that it's time to bring someone to life
Going clean, got no disease
Claiming to be clean without diseases
But I got needs, oh baby please
Expressing personal needs and asking for fulfillment
Now I'm drowning, can't you see
Feeling overwhelmed and in need
Hit me like amphetamine
Comparing the impact to that of amphetamine, suggesting intensity
Ah, I can't explain it
Expressing difficulty in explaining the feeling
You just make me feel so
Acknowledging that the person makes the speaker feel alive
Alive
Reiteration of feeling alive
Hey
Repetition of greeting
I may not wake up in the morning
Expressing uncertainty about waking up in the morning
Lately I've been running on luck
Describing recent reliance on luck
A gamble with an appetite
Referring to life as a gamble with desires
Hey
Repetition of greeting
For now I guess I'm stuck in limbo
Indicating a feeling of being stuck in a situation
Got nothing else to pass the time
Having nothing else to do to pass the time
The habit isn't breaking tonight
Acknowledging a habit that persists
Going clean got no disease
Reiterating cleanliness without diseases
But I got needs, oh baby please
Expressing personal needs and seeking fulfillment
Now I'm drowning, can't you see
Feeling overwhelmed and in need, again
Hit me like amphetamine
Repeating the impact likened to amphetamine
Habitual
Describing the situation as habitual
Your ritual
Referring to the person as a ritual
Spend all my days
Spending all days in a particular way
Wasting away
Wasting away, possibly due to the habitual situation
Hey, hey, hey
Repetition of "Hey"
Hey, hey, hey
-Hey, hey, hey
-Hey, hey
-Going clean got no disease
Reiterating cleanliness without diseases
But I got needs, oh baby please
Expressing personal needs and asking for fulfillment
Now I'm drowning, can't you see
Feeling overwhelmed and in need, once more
Hit me like amphetamine
Repeating the impact likened to amphetamine
Habitual
Describing the situation as habitual
Your ritual
Referring to the person as a ritual
Spend all my days
Spending all days in a particular way
Wasting away
Wasting away, possibly due to the habitual situation
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