June 10 - Dilaudid

Everything about listening to this makes me tense in the best way. The staccato strings and the urgent nature of the lyrics add up to the feeling of something constrained, desperate, vulnerable, and passionate.

This song has some of John's best lyrical content, moving effortlessly from the urgent paranoia of the world going wrong to the horny desperation of an early girlfriend where lust is taking over from love, and the way these two things crash into each other. it's a song of fumbled encounters with one eye over the shoulder, getting high in places you shouldn't get high, trying to hang on to things that you bruise by holding them too tight.

Some relationships are only doomed by your attempts to un-doom them.