Airplane flies overhead
Important man sits by the window
Sucked out of the first class window
Images run by, thousand miles an hour
But the time seems far away
Folding clothes in a folding closet
Folding money in a resume
Time to let off some steam
All your notebooks get thrown away
And you start your diary clean
Crystal glass lined up in a row
Watched over by the G.I. Joes
Sugar in your coffee doesn't taste quite right
Feeling the effects for a hundred thousand nights
Technology throws on the dirt
You realize the finest things in life
Are the ones that can never be hurt
The sounds you hear aren't coming out right
You think it might be mystic, you think I might be cryptic
The crystal in your china case is breaking in a million tiny pieces
Definitely about Crystal Meth
No song, perhaps with the exception of "White Light, White Heat" by Velvet Underground, has captured the effects of methamphetamine in lyrics quite a well as this one. Shatters your brain in a million tiny pieces. Also just about as classic a Bob Mould-penned track as there ever was. \n\nI love his first series of images, about being sucked out of an airplane, and the images running by a thousand miles an hour, but time seeming to stand still. Coming down off a meth high, one asks, "how long was that? Days? Years?", then you look at the calendar and realize you only got high a couple days ago. But, you WILL feel the effects for a hundred thousand nights. The rest of your life, in my personal experience. \n\nThe image of the lines of crystal (he obviously snorted it) being watched over by the GI Joes captures the paranoia, the CIA people looking in the windows at the end of a weeklong binge, is also perfect. \n\nThere is a reason the first live Hüsker Dü album is called "Land Speed Record". It was recorded over a long tour of various dives during which the band covered a lot of land, did a lot of speed, and made a record. \n\nThere are a million songs and heroin, acid, etc.. There are only 3 good songs about meth. The Velvet Underground one, Third Eye Blind\'s "Semi-charmed Life", and this one.