Lyric discussion by DaRMan40 

there is one perticular line in this song that speeks to me "you can have it all my empire of dirt" i think it means everything i have in my life means nothing to me, i dont do it to please myself, and id give it up in a heartbeat that describes my whole life

this song is definitely about heroin. The needle verse is about heroin-a pain killer. the rest is about despair and hitting rock bottom for a drug addict. Listen to some alice in chains songs...Layne was another drug addict and was reflected in song. Rezner has done heroin...well known.

To me it means, you could follow my path in life, and create for yourself what i have, but even though it seems great, it's worthless, it's shallow, it has no true meaning.

in response to chrisv, for some reason, everyone thinks everthing nin is drug related, it's not, trent wasn't even an addict before his success , this has nothing to do with drug addiction but life itself.

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