Lyric discussion by hacker00 

Could be someone who's strung out on his or her (probably her) own drug habit, impudence, narcisissm, fear, social retardation, laziness, or even corrosive influence of a crazy stuck-up mom who isn't around anymore.

Then she looks in the mirror and sees it's too late, while everybody else is going as far as they can, as people instinctively do.

Damn right it's disturbing, even cruel .... unless maybe Alex was describing himself?

He's absolutely describing himself. And anyone who has felt this way, hence the use of second person.

@hacker00 Actually, he was describing his girlfriend's mother. Someone he loathed because the woman was full of self pity.

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