Blue October - Dirt Room Meaning

Dirt Room Lyrics

I'm like a ghost
I'll be living in a dirt room
Waiting for the day to be close
To the window when you're home
I'll be standing by your back door
Reaching for the knife in my coat
I'm going to put it to your throat
Sweaty piggy, you're a...

1. sdjennifer

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   Jan 21st 2009 !⃝

   I think it is Justin being the master over drugs now/ killing the addition. It sounds like he wants to kill someone, bury them alive but he's just personifying the drugs/ the dealers / the addiction, much in the same way Lupe Fiasco personify's "the streets" "the cool" and "the game" as people.
2. anonymous

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   Dec 21st 2008 !⃝

   It seems like some on who took something from the singer (money, as if in the lyrics, or something else possibly), and the singer is getting revenge. As in the first verse,
   
   
   "Waiting for the day to be close
   To the window when you're home
   I'll be standing by your back door
   Reaching for the knife in my coat
   I'm going to put it to your throat
   Sweaty piggy, you're a bad man
   What a fucking sad way to go"
   
   The Chorus is pretty straightforward.
   
   "You think you own me
   You should have known me
   You took the future and the food off my family's plate
   You think you'll use me
   I'm stronger than you
   You take my money, but it's useless
   We'll see what I do to you
   Look what I do to you"
   
   And the second verse continues after the first
   
   "Oh god then you awoke
   You started screaming through the duct tape
   Don't ever think I'm letting you go"
   
   The it comes back to a line in the first verse
   
   (Beginning of first verse)
   "I'm like a ghost
   I'll be living in a dirt room"
   
   (Near end of second verse)
   I'm busy digging you a hole
   Now you'll be living in a dirt room
   Breathing through the straw of your own
   
   So it becomes clear the singer is giving an "an eye for an eye" punishment.
   
   Then this line comes in and also concludes the song later, and it seems the singer may be using the villains pain for his pleasure, or something. I really don't know.
   
   "I want to cover you in ants, bees and honey
   Then take a picture for the cover of our album!"
   
   Then there is the singer again with the villain, the signer with the villains "back against the wall".
   
   "And now I see you, oh
   'Cause your back's against the wall
   And finally you're mine
   You're mine"
   
   And then the song concludes with the chorus and then a piece from the second verse.
   
   "I really think that this is fun for the money
   We'll make you comfy for the time wasted making you rich
   I want to cover you in ants, bees and honey
   Then take a picture for the cover of our album!"
   
   by: JoePenn18

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