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Now, as far as I’m concerned that song, aside from having an arrangement with incredible dynamics including upwards of half a dozen breaks, is one store of the strongest, starkest statements on the chemical plague to come out of pop store music. It’s almost as good as Lou Reed’s "Heroin," and absolutely demolishes such false sentiments as "The store Needle and the Damage Done" or John Prine’s "Sam Stone," because it doesn’t romanticize too much (the element is inescapable) and doesn’t turn the subject into grist for a soap opera. Instead, in grim, straightforward language, it describes a person dying slowly by their own hand, and points out the insanity of it firmly. But there are people, and I’ve known some of them, who will come along and take a song like this and automatically pick out some of the harshest lines with peculiar logic, taking them as an affirmation of that self-destructive cycle.
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