Lyric discussion by paulinwa 

FYI, the hanging picture is of Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko. He was the last of the old guard before Gorbachev took office.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko - it's pretty obvious once you compare.

For me it is clearly a song about drug use (cocaine) and the reactions that nick must have experienced the withdrawal of his drinking problem. Even here he can not resist his own dark spot to suppress

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