Argument #4 the words "slow motion"

Slow Motion
See me let go

The term slow motion means not going at normal speed. Things are slowed down. Slow motion is due to the affects of the drugs that he is using.

one of the drugs he uses is herione, which is a depressant. People's mental function after injecting herione is clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. The effects are slurred speech and slow movements.

Another is marijuana. Marijuana affects the users judgment, motor coordination and short term memory. The song implies that he uses drugs frequently and frequent marijuana users often have shortened attention spans, decreased energy and ambition and poor judgment.

Cocaine is also used. Now, cocaine is a stimulant that give an immediate high that lasts for a few minutes and causes increased heart and pulse rate and users usually feel nervous or panicky. It isnt the usage of it that is one of the causes of the "slow motion" but the what happens after using it. Afterwards the user feels tired and depressed.

The closest thing I could find to relate to his sister eating paint chips was inhalants. She isnt inhaling them, of course, but either way its paint being put into the body whether through the stomache or the lungs. Abuse of this negatively affects a persons cognition, movement, vision and hearing.

Wino is an alcoholic who is especially addicted to wine. Alcohol is a depressant- it slows the body down making it difficult to think clearly.

He is constantly bombarding his body with all of these drugs that are mainly depressants. And it is making him feel not only slow motion affects while under the influence but afterwards as well. It also gives an insight to his mental stability. A common side affect is suicidal thoughts from each drug. So the next lines "see me let go" is a let go not only from reality into a drug induced state of unconciousness but also from his own sanity.

The words "slow motion" could also be relating to his deference from modern day american values or in other words American culture. In the United States its expected for you to be productive, there shouldnt be time wasted doing useless things. Its expected that you remain busy and doing somthing productive, working towards a future with a good job that pays well and giving yourself and your family some status.

But the author doesnt do those things. Instead he spends time doing all sorts of drugs. He is not in the moving productive lane of society but in the opposite one which is in slow motion. Things arent changing for him as for someone who is working towards something. Out of high school most people leave and go to college and then onward to find a job. He will probably remain in the same town in the same situation.

By him not doing anything productive and wasting his brains on drugs, he is useless to society. Therefore becomes alienated from it because he serves not puropse anymore. His only future is becoming a part of the criminal justice system.