A Perfect Circle: The Package Meaning

The Package Lyrics

Clever got me this far
Then tricky got me in
Eye on what i'm after
I don't need another friend
Smile and drop the cliche
'Till you think I'm listening
I take just what I came for
Then I'm out the door again

Peripheral on the...

1. howieinc2000

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   Dec 26th 2008 !⃝

   i definately think its about drugs. Time to feed the monster is referring to his need to get his next fix, peripheral on the package, i don't if you guys have ever bought a drug but when ever i have i always have an eye on it because after all its what i am after. have you seen pine apple express when the dude is there just to get bud and doesn't want to stay with the dealer. Primo example
2. anonymous

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   Nov 5th 2008 !⃝

   I think like many of maynards songs it is open to a couple of different interpretations.. thats what makes his music great.. personally this song is about drug addiction.. but i used to be an addict so....
3. anonymous

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   Nov 3rd 2008 !⃝

   This song personally seems like it's about a guy doing whatever it takes for a one night stand
4. anonymous

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   Aug 8th 2008 !⃝

   I think the whole album is about addiction and recovery and I think it is put together in a way that the listener goes through the journey. I thought this when the album first came out but Maynard confirmed this at a show when he dedicated the songs to everyone who ever knew someone or went through addiction and recovery themselves. If you or anyone you know has successfully gone through recovery I think this album stands out very clearly in that respect.
   
   in recovery the 13th step is like an inside joke. as we all know there are 12 steps to recovery- when someone new comes to a meeting and a member tries to approach them with sexual intentions over supportive ones members say "look at Joe trying to 13th step nancy" for example. just silliness but a brilliant title for an album either way.
5. paja713

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   Oct 24th 2007 !⃝

   Yeah it could work both ways. but it is meant to be about waiting for your drugs. its called Thirteenth Step because of the steps to get out of addiction. but yeah, haha, it does work with sex, haha.
6. anonymous

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   Oct 21st 2007 !⃝

   I think this song is about buying drugs. "I take just what I came for, then I'm out the door again" No one sticks around and hangs out with their drug dealer. "I don't need another friend" says the same thing. "Peripheral on the Package", "Eye on what I'm after" says he's probably a late stage addict. "Nod and watch your lips move, if you need me to pretend" another reference to just going through the motions of buying drugs.
7. Ender

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   Sep 21st 2007 !⃝

   I thought it was clear that this song was about sex. clever got him this far with the girl the tricky got him laid then he's out the door. Its basically about a guy who is addicted to sex and that's all he wants but so it is about an addiction but not to a drug its sex
8. adrian_garcia

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   Jul 2nd 2007 !⃝

   I don't see why we have to try to specify it down to an object. I think the object could be anything we wanted. To me, I'd understand it as being more about doing anything to get sex... I guess that says a lot about me :| .
   
   Really, with the vague meaning of the lyrics in the song, 'The Package' could range anywhere between his own penis to a case of 32 Kalajnikovs.
   
   I say it's time to stop taking the songs brutally literally and thinking that our own interpretation is gospel, after all, we didn't write the bloody song.
9. anonymous

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   Mar 14th 2007 !⃝

   This song, along with many others by A Perfect Circle, is about sex addiction.
10. anonymous

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    Mar 9th 2007 !⃝

    Well sex can be an addiction too, so I think it could go both ways. Perhaps they left it for the person to decide what the bigger addiction is in their life, if its drugs or getting laid.
11. anonymous

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    Feb 23rd 2007 !⃝

    I agree with the first two interpretations. I think it's about addiction much like many of the songs on this album. An addict will lie and do whatever it takes to get the drug he desperately wants. He doesn't care about cliches about drug users that anyone gives him he just wants his drugs.
12. anonymous

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    Nov 21st 2006 !⃝

    Along the same lines as above, "The Package" euphemistically refers to a man's penis.
    
    Clever got me this far
    Then tricky got me in
    I am what I'm after
    I don't need another friend
    Smile and drop the cliche
    'Till you think I'm listening
    I take just what I came for
    Then I'm out the door again
    
    He doesn't want a female "friend," he wants sex. "Clever" got him close to the girl, "tricky" will get him laid. He'll say whatever is necessary to get sex, then he leaves. Esp. The "cliche" line: he'll saying anything, even if it's overused, to have sex.
13. Kornelius

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    Oct 14th 2006 !⃝

    The song is definately about addiction. I used to be a drug addict and this song encapsulates the feeling of desperation before your next score.

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