Brain Stew

I think this song is the anthem for frying your brain with drugs, specifically methamphetamine since I know that was a habit the Green Day members had around the time Insomniac was made. Although with my own experiences with cocaine binging this song completely describes the after affects to me, even down to the prolonged speech in the verses and guitar riffs.

You want to sleep after heavy use of drugs, and you feel worn down but after you take a lot of stimulants you cannot sleep no matter how hard you try and you would must definitely do something like count sheep at times just sitting there wishing the after affects of the drugs you took were done and over with lying in bed in self induced agony. If you had more you would take them but you don't so on top of dealing with the come down you're now dealing with fiending out for more drugs.

Your eyes have been wide open for so long from being up for so long that repercussions from that are setting in (exaggerated bleeding). Your mouth is dry because you get dehydrated frequently on stimulants, and especially if you snort your drugs your face will go numb but even if you don't it will. Your just tripping out all by your lonesome in your room, trying to get through it by yourself.

Your body is tired but your mind and thoughts are moving at a fast pace that you can't keep up with, as time keeps passing and your still just as fucked up. As far as your body chemistry goes your altering many things so a crooked spine from drugs happens and your senses will either be dulled or heightened. Now you're on the verge of complete irrational thinking, along the lines of a legitimate crazy person because of the drugs and insomnia from not being able to sleep.

Also "here we go" tells me this is a reoccurring theme in the subject of this songs life, he's prepared for it and knows whats coming but at the same time it sucks but the short high is always worth it to him for the long come down and after affects.