Working out at the gym I am often exposed to pop music that I would not otherwise listen to, even if the only other alternative were an entire boxed set of grocery store TV commercial jingles.
A case in point is a song which I believe is entitled, “Follow Me”, where this boyband vocalist apparently wants to cut in on another man’s wife, saying he doesn’t worry about the ring she wears, because if nobody knows, no one has to care.
But in the chorus, he sings (as much as I can remember):
Follow me, it will be all right,
I’ll be the one to tuck you in at night,
Somthing something make you free
And I’ll swim through your veins, like fish in the sea.
And the bit about veins made me wonder if the song was about heroin, or a similar drug. “Tuck you in at night”, and especially “swim through your veins” seem to point in that direction.
I don’t know why I’m curious about the song. It must be what I get for working out in a gym instead of at home. It does seem odd that a boyband would sing about heroin.
That’s no boyband, that’s Uncle Kracker.
http://soundspike.com/story/540
He comments in the above interview that the song is a cheating song.
I personally never bought the “drug song” thing. It seems like the only reason that most people think it’s about drugs is because that one line about “swim[ming] through your veins”. Yes, there’s that one line, but what about the other lyrics that are clearly about infidelity? Why assume it’s about something based on one line… especially when there’s so many more lines that indicate it’s about something else? Song lyrics that are odd or don’t seem to fit often are metaphorical. They’re not necessarily reason to conclude that the song’s about something it doesn’t appear to be about.
Matt Shafer would undoubtedly be amused to hear himself described as a boy band.
As for the lyrics, I think the “swim through you veins” line may indeed be a drug reference. But the song as a whole is about adultery and the singer is saying that cheating can become an addictive behavior like a drug.