What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
What is this?
The Genius annotation is the work of the Genius Editorial project. Our editors and contributors collaborate to create the most interesting and informative explanation of any line of text. It’s also a work in progress, so leave a suggestion if this or any annotation is missing something.
To learn more about participating in the Genius Editorial project, check out the contributor guidelines.
Bradley was a warm hearted person who loved the people in his life and around him. He found it unsettling or rude when his friends, family, or women left without saying goodbye.
This could be applied to, for example, people leaving his house without saying goodbye, or people leaving out of his life completely without saying goodbye.
Another explanation could be a lament for every time he had to leave somewhere silently, without waking someone’s parents or roommates – it suggests a life of unstable relationships, which are all too common among addicts.
Like other lines in this verse, deciding to leave without making a sound is something that can weigh on one’s soul after the fact.
Depression, guilt, and shame often go hand in hand, even if none are deserved.
If one is in this frame of mind, leaving without making a sound is often the easiest way to go in that moment, even if in hindsight it only worsens the problem.
I’ve done this. You really want to get high because you’re withdrawing or you have money to score or your guy just told you he has it but it’s an inopportune time to leave the people who ate expecting you to stay home. They know you’re going to score. so, whether it’s late at night, very early in the morning, or your girlfriend is distracted, you dress quietly, sneak to the door and quietly twist the knob to creep outside and hope you don’t hear anyone call after you. it’s sad, you’re letting down someone who loves you and can’t figure out why you’re throwing your life away. And, you don’t want to hurt them.. just this time and I’ll get help and stop before she gets sick of my bullshit and leaves but for now I’m sweating and restless and my muscles ache and if I can just creep away and fix and be back before she wakes up it will be ok.
Like SurferEddie said, and also since he’s always stealing, presumably to score heroin, can’t be loud and not caught during a B&E. Seems like he hates having to resort to this
I can’t remember a lyric in which Bradley is the victim (unless he’s avenging the act). This most likely has to do with him sneaking out of the house to score heroin, something he was prevented from doing once when his stepmom caught him and kneed him in the nuts.
109
I think this may reference dying and leaving the world without making a sound…especially since the previous line was “feeling depressed every day.”