I have never really thought about it before, Natalie, so thank you for this. I found a quote from the writer which suggests your insight that it defies a specific interpretation is spot on. I love that it was influenced by books, not drugs! A💚🙏

Reid was quoted in the February 2008 issue of Uncut magazine as saying:

"I was trying to conjure a mood as much as tell a straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story. With the ceiling flying away and room humming harder, I wanted to paint an image of a scene. I wasn’t trying to be mysterious with those images, I was trying to be evocative. I suppose it seems like a decadent scene I’m describing. But I was too young to have experienced any decadence, then. I might have been smoking when I conceived it, but not when I wrote. It was influenced by books, not drugs."