We’ve taken the liberty of looking them up for you (after all, he told us to). These are from the Oxford English Dictionary.

(Yes, we know he was being rhetorical and/or facetious.)

addicted ad|dict¦ed /əˈdɪktɪd

adjective (usually addicted to)
1. Physically and mentally dependent on a particular substance. “She became addicted to alcohol and diet pills.”

Patrick has alluded to addiction to alcohol (on “Theme From ‘Cheers’”), but prescription medication (“No Future Part Three,” “Fatal Flaw”) is the major addiction in question here.

In “My Eating Disorder,” he claims to have been “a drug addict since single digits,” since his parents “put something in his apple sauce.” On “Still Life With Hot Deuce” he claims that he is defined by that early encounter with Ritalin:

My authentic self was aborted at the age of four

“The Abyss” is depression, and is likely a reference to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously wrote,

If you gaze long enough into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes back into you.

Interestingly (and we’re not saying this is what Patrick is referring to), the famous photo above depicts two lovers kissing “right there on the street,” “in the blistering heat” of Vancouver, June 2011, during riots with tear gas in the air that would have caused “tears on glistening cheeks.”

Watsky performs interchangeably under the name Watsky and his full name, George Watsky, but usually favours his surname alone. Playing under his real name was a conscious choice, as he elaborates on “Fuck An Emcee Name.”

First of all, there’s already a popular reggae artist named Elephant Man
Second, as my mother always said, there’s nothing cooler than being yourself
And third, and most importantly—

Fuck an emcee Name
I don’t need no god damn emcee Name
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
George Watsky doesn’t need a fucking emcee Name

Patrick chooses one of the most heinous acts he can think of to demonstrate the levels of depravity to which the participants of war will sink. They may be human now, but they’ll be committing inhumanly evil acts soon enough.

This is most likely a reference to the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum on 44th and 5th Avenue, Manhattan, in 1863. Following the institution of new draft laws that allowed rich people to dodge the draft by paying a substitute $300 to fight for them, working class Irish citizens worked up a mob, and began to riot. The protest turned quickly into a race riot, and the rioters began attacking blacks when they could find them. So severe was the riot that most blacks moved to Brooklyn, forever shifting the demographics of NYC.

A contemporary report describes the action thus:

During the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum a young Irishman, named Paddy M'Caffrey, with four stage-drivers of the Forty-second Street line and the members of Engine Company No. 18, rescued some twenty of the orphan children who were surrounded by the mob, and in defiance of the threats of the rioters, escorted them to the Thirty-fifth Precinct Station-house. It hardly seems credible, yet it is nevertheless true, that there were dozens of men, or rather fiends, among the crowd who gathered around the poor children and cried out, “Murder the [damned] monkeys,” “Wring the necks of the [damned] Lincolnites,” etc. Had it not been for the courageous conduct of the parties mentioned, there is little doubt that many, and perhaps all of those helpless children, would have been murdered in cold blood.

One of the major themes in Patrick’s work is the inner battle between one’s authentic, “human” self, and forces in the outside world that will try to influence that self/soul/etc. into acting inauthentically.

For example, during the Civil War, it was the brutal, violent nature of the war that made people act more violently than they normally would, so Patrick sings (on “Richard II”),

I will not deny my humanity
I’ll be rolling in it like a pig in feces
Because there’s no other integrity
In awaiting the demise of our species

Similarly, on “In A Big City,”

It’s easy turning me on
I’m nearly a robot…
Lifeless automaton, feeling like a ghost

For Patrick, it is drugs that keep him from being authentically human. Here, they are prescription antidepressants. Elsewhere in Titus’s discog, it’s self-medication (see “Theme From ‘Cheers’”). He reveals that this started when his parents prescribed Ritalin for him at the age of four (see “Still Life With Hot Deuce On Silver Platter”).

The end of the first verse leads into the narrative of the second: Patrick is so depressed that he’d rather feel nothing at all. So he gets a prescription for numbing antidepressants (presumably he goes to the doctor while on Christmas break).

“All I want for Christmas” is a common phrase in holiday music, examples being “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” and “All I Want For Christmas Is You.”