Well, after reading Anthony's biography... this song makes a lot of sense. The book explains many songs, but some of the stories indirectly explain others songs.
To me, this is 100% about his drug addiction.
This song is about one his lapses. The book describes one right before recording the album One Hot Minute.
He had been sober for over 5 and a half years before this lapse.
"Waking up dead inside of my head
Whenever never do there is no med
No medicine to take"
The book explains how after a few days of going back to heroin he woke up and wished it was a dream. He didnt want to be back in his binge routine.
This lapse was actually triggered by a medicine given to him at a dentists office.
"It's so bad it's got to be good"
"Slow cheetah come it's so euphoric
No matter what they say"
All of these can be linked with heroin use.
"Any other day and I might play
A funeral march for Bonnie Brae"
This line, I know for damn sure!
Bonnie Brae is a street where he'd go to get his heroin.
Any other day and would consider Bonnie Brae to be dead, but this day he drove on Bonnie Brae to revive his heroin addiction.
All of this comes from Chapter 11: Warped of "Scar Tissue"
Well, after reading Anthony's biography... this song makes a lot of sense. The book explains many songs, but some of the stories indirectly explain others songs.
To me, this is 100% about his drug addiction.
This song is about one his lapses. The book describes one right before recording the album One Hot Minute.
He had been sober for over 5 and a half years before this lapse.
"Waking up dead inside of my head Whenever never do there is no med No medicine to take"
The book explains how after a few days of going back to heroin he woke up and wished it was a dream. He didnt want to be back in his binge routine.
This lapse was actually triggered by a medicine given to him at a dentists office.
"It's so bad it's got to be good"
"Slow cheetah come it's so euphoric No matter what they say"
All of these can be linked with heroin use.
"Any other day and I might play A funeral march for Bonnie Brae"
This line, I know for damn sure!
Bonnie Brae is a street where he'd go to get his heroin. Any other day and would consider Bonnie Brae to be dead, but this day he drove on Bonnie Brae to revive his heroin addiction.
All of this comes from Chapter 11: Warped of "Scar Tissue"