The line "I dive deep when it's 10 feet overhead - Grab the reef underneath my bed" refers to Brad going back to heroin when the world above (a world above water being without heroin) is hectic, chaotic, and too hard to handle. Most opiate addicts know that you hide your gear in places that can't easily be found. Being underwater is a euphemism for being strung out or being on heroin. "Reef" is a direct moniker for heroin in this song. It's quite obviously about Brad's heroin addiction which was relatively new when Sublime recorded this song. I think most have hit this one on the head. Maybe he is starting to embrace his perceived truth that he is on his way to fast grave.Īdmitting again that he is weak and is in need of help Maybe he isn’t putting blame on a higher power for his weakness.Ěnother reference to being weak and addicted.He regrets ever starting to use heroin and recognizes how toxic and poisonous it is to his body, mind, and soul.Is he referring to his girl or the heroin with a “big blue whale?” (rare and powerful creature) Maybe he’s trying to navigate his life and get clean at the same time but when the going gets tough he succumbs and uses once more.He knows he needs help with his addiction and wishes someone will help him.Spent all of his money on drugs and doesn’t want the high to end.Ě badfish is someone who exposes someone to heroin for the first time.Ĝonsiders himself a lowly, leechy, person on the hunt for heroin or to steal money for it.Probably talking about his girl embracing him.I won't be offended but it's good for a lesson with high school students. Either way I consider up for interpretation. I don't know whether the song is really about heroin but it could be. I am a Substance Abuse Counselor in a school and while in classroom I use this song as a reference to a personal struggle of someone addicted to drugs. basically saying he knows it’ll kill him. this is big, ten foot wave is scary (fear) and he “dives deep” to “grab the reef under his bed” (deep into drinking or goes hard). He learned to Get them (girls) but it’s too polluted with the wrong ones (hard to find the right girl). his girl is heavy, like the largest mammal (hard to be with) and he turns to drinking (“grab the reef”) when he can’t fix, get away, even though he tried to “duck dive” (surfer term to get below a wave essentially, avoids the problem).
The “reef” is the alcohol addiction or drinking. alcoholics are weak, it’s hard to fight.
obviously “booze” but then you find others to drink with (bad fish too ) drinking is expensive but makes you feel like the night would never end. It’s a parasite and usually crawls in at night (wake up from a hang over and say you’ll never drink again then you drink the next night) Alcohol grabs you and it’s hard to let go, He is literally talking about being an alcoholic…I say this cause I’m literally going through it. (he has made peace with god he's ready to die) (he shoots it when he can't take it anymore)Īint got no quarrels with God, aint got no time to grow old (swimming is slang for shooting He shoots and he regrets doing it)Īnd grab the reef, that's underneath my bed (Blue whale is heroin that swallows swimmers whole he'll use again when everything falls again)Īnd I can swim but I wish I had never learned I'll grab the reef when all duck diving fails (the high only lasts the night, addicts are broke) Tell me are you a badfish too? are you a badfish too? (Heroin addicts are called "parasites" because they steal and take) (How Heroin addiction grabs you and never lets go)
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