Just Like Honey is a beautiful song. It's very rare to have a lyricist that can blend very different emotions and make them work together, and that's exactly what makes this song so powerful. It's incredibly simple. To me, this song has three basic elements: frustration, love, and sex. It sounds like he is saying in the beginning that she is moving up in the world and he is happy for her, but at the same time he's angry and frustrated by it. He's repeating "it's so good," and I do not think that's a direct reference to sex...I think it's more along the lines that he knows he should be happy for her, but that when she moves up, he feels left behind. This is also referenced in the lines, "Walking back to you is the hardest thing that I can do," and "eating up the scum is the hardest thing for me to do," He's saying that he feels like he's inferior. Like he's no longer good enough for her. I think at the same time he's battling the frustration, he's saying "I'll be your plastic toy", which I think is a cleverly veiled sexual reference but also it's another way of saying no matter how inferior he feels or how frustrated he is about what's going on in the relationship, he loves her and he won't leave her. Even though walking back to her is the hardest thing he can do, he'll stay with her even if it means being her "plastic toy."
Just Like Honey is a beautiful song. It's very rare to have a lyricist that can blend very different emotions and make them work together, and that's exactly what makes this song so powerful. It's incredibly simple. To me, this song has three basic elements: frustration, love, and sex. It sounds like he is saying in the beginning that she is moving up in the world and he is happy for her, but at the same time he's angry and frustrated by it. He's repeating "it's so good," and I do not think that's a direct reference to sex...I think it's more along the lines that he knows he should be happy for her, but that when she moves up, he feels left behind. This is also referenced in the lines, "Walking back to you is the hardest thing that I can do," and "eating up the scum is the hardest thing for me to do," He's saying that he feels like he's inferior. Like he's no longer good enough for her. I think at the same time he's battling the frustration, he's saying "I'll be your plastic toy", which I think is a cleverly veiled sexual reference but also it's another way of saying no matter how inferior he feels or how frustrated he is about what's going on in the relationship, he loves her and he won't leave her. Even though walking back to her is the hardest thing he can do, he'll stay with her even if it means being her "plastic toy."