It's Been Awhile Lyrics Meaning

To Me this song has always been about Heroin addiction and nothing else. The love and hate relationship a true heroin addict goes through on a minute by minute basis, in and out of addiction. This song has spoken to Me in sobriety and during times of obsession. When I am high and caught in my heroin death grip I wish I were clean. When I am sober a single flash of a thought makes me long for another taste...

I agree that this is a song about the pure hell of addiction and the love that He fondly refers to is that of the memories of the high.

The words seem to go back and forth just as the thoughts of any addict in and out of recovery. It is a never ending cycle....

P.S. Stained did a cover of "Comfortably Numb" , which is awesome, and that song is clearly about IV drug use, so I would have to disagree with the fan who stated this song is about pot....