last song, whew. Obviously a song about addiction, which can be taken in the literal sense of being addicted to opium, or more generally anything.

gimme some fire and a piece of glass
hear that train floatin past
on feather tracks with helium wheels
got no coal got no steel

pretty self explanitory, nice imagrey, sets up for the second verse

well opium won't you smile on my brain
flowers and fog you got me feelin no pain

notice the omission of the second part of the chorus, my thinking here is that its a kind of timeline of addiction, at this point he is just into the feeling no pain part, he hasn't yet been hooked, he doesn't have to be begged to be rescued.

deja vu all over again
you gonna be my pal my bestest friend
hear that train screamin past
outta control and off the tracks

ok now he is a full blown addict, the deja vu part indicating that its a regular occurance, saying it has become his pal, his bestest friend, the train is no longer floating past going back to the first verse, but its screaming past, its outta control and off the tracks.

opium won't you smile on my brain
flowers and fog you got me feelin no pain
its 8 am not a quarter past 3
flowers and fog won't you rescue me

now the second part of the chorus enters, now that he has lost all sense of time, and has to beg the flowers and fog to rescue him fast asleep quick to die I seen him go in the blink of an eye long white lines, tied to the tracks little white lie, no looking back tied to the tracks goes back to the first verse when they were feathered tracks that could assumably be gotten off, now he is tied to the tracks, the little white lie is most probably "I'm not addicted" or any of the other lies related to heavy addiction, and no looking back is quite obvious. Also with tied to the tracks it can also be taken as the sense of being tied to the tracks like the old damsel in distress in western movies, indicating that he could be ran over by the addiction. I kinda take it as the tracks represent the addictive substance, and the train represents the addiction itself (meaning that in the sense of just the addiction, not what you are addicted to). Now he is beyond anything, the end of hope. In the first verse he could hear the addiction (train) floating past, then it was screaming past, now he is tied down and about to be ran over by it, no looking back.

opium won't you smile on my brain
flowers and fog you got me feelin no pain
Its 8 am not a quarter past 3
flowers and fog won't you rescue me

rescue me...... can't you set me free?.......
rescue me........ set me free....

ok this is just a hunch, but the first can't you set me free is probably refering to the build up of tolerance and it doesn't really do it for him any more, and kinda by the way he says the second it just feels like to me it may be talking about being set free in an overdose being ultimately set free sense. Nothing really to back that up with, just something that I kinda felt in my gut on that one.

opium won't you smile on my brain
flowers and fog you got me feelin no pain
its 8 am not a quarter past 3
flowers and fog won't you rescue me(x2)

on second followed with "baby" overall one of my favorite songs on dither, very very powerful

Jacob (kind ass dank warriors rule) Rabon

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