What do you think My Little Needle means?

Alkaline Trio: My Little Needle Meaning

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My Little Needle Lyrics

I'll come down to get you high
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...

  1. anonymous
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    Jul 16th 2014 !⃝

    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.

  2. anonymous
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    Oct 12th 2009 !⃝

    Matt Skiba says that this song is about finding a needle in a haystack. Nothing to do with drugs whatsoever.

  3. tmats08
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    Jul 23rd 2009 !⃝

    Clearly it's the option between the needle and that "needle in the haystack." it applies to both. An argument between the two is ridiculous when it is supposed to be both. The choice is the point.

  4. xtrioxcore
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    Jul 9th 2008 !⃝

    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")

  5. anonymous
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    Mar 15th 2008 !⃝

    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.

  6. anonymous
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    May 8th 2007 !⃝

    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."

  7. anonymous
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    Nov 18th 2006 !⃝

    about drugs and how doing drugs is bad and leads to being poor and being homeless and dying! buahah


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