Alkaline Trio: My Little Needle Meaning
My Little Needle Lyrics
Or maybe sing you a lullabye
Sing you to sleep - a sleep you'll never wake from
Sing you to coma so to speak
When I fall down I'll fall apart
Trade in my bike for a shopping cart
and beg change from a...
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This song has a double meaning. It is contrasting the search for happiness (needle in a haystack) with the helplessness and lack of motivation derived from drug abuse.
Skiba's lyrics are littered with double meanings... Every other reference to drugs has had another, deeper meaning in Alkaline Trio songs. There's no reason to think he changed his writing style for this one song. -
Matt Skiba says that this song is about finding a needle in a haystack. Nothing to do with drugs whatsoever.
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Not About Drugs! It's about finding that one special person like finding the needle in the haystack( "so where are you my little needle")
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This song is not about drugs. you people need to look deeper into songs other than the title.
"My little needle" means my needle in a hay stack. The thing you have been looking for. -
This song is about heroin. It's about how you sell all of your possessions so that you can buy more. Skiba also hints that his drug use is because he has no woman in his life, or because a woman left him ie. "I'm tired of sleeping alone" or "make some change for a world that needs some/like I need someone."
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about drugs and how doing drugs is bad and leads to being poor and being homeless and dying! buahah
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