I was recently listening to Moby and this commentary track came on, and this part of it hit me hard. https://youtu.be/qb577Bl0oFI
This song is about two drug addicts in a relationship who've disappeared down the rabbit hole of hardcore drug addiction. Almost everybody I know either is or has been a drug addict. When I was growing up my mom and her friends did a lot of drugs but harder drugs always seemed really scary to me. At some point though I realized that I'd become in ennured through exposure to drug use. Everyone I knew was either smoking crack or smoking meth or shooting speed balls or dying of overdoses. Sadly it actually became sort of normal. So that's what this song is about. My friends are junkies and it's normal. It doesn't seem weird anymore which in and of itself is weird. The way drug use is demonized almost from a Victorian perspective, and I don't think people should do addictive drugs because they become addicted to them and they end up miserable, but the reason people do drugs more often than not is they want to be happy. A lot of people tend to think of drug users as subhuman and living in gutters and I mean the people who sell drugs are mean people who use guns but at the end of the day someone who's doing drugs just wants to feel good like, child eating Oreos and there's nothing nefarious about a drug user's intentions. It's just someone trying to feel better than they normally would, with the added bonus of nihilism thrown in there. So that's the inspiration behind this song.
