The first line seems to be about having fallen down with your face on the rocks, literally shrinking in your head would seem to be an existential type of drug reference, not that people don't unknowingly recede in their heads without drugs sometimes falling in "love" with a chick who's got access to drugs drug access being the main portion of the attraction the lady acting like a nurse with the other guys means she doesn't particularly flirt or any of that with anyone else. She saves the drugs & s* for singer dude the apples on the ground to me is wasted potential or squandered capability probably due to drug use and just general wasting of time you don't know what you have until you lose it, so "it's even more a part of your life now that you can't touch it" Annnd that about sums it up Failure is truly an awesome, way underappreciated/ far-too-unknown band, and anyone who digs any sort of awesome modern rock and/or roll should go to the store and pick up "Fantastic Plaet" as soon as you can. Some of the member have gone on to form/ perform in Year of the Rabbit, Autlox, On, Campfire Girls, The Replicants, A Perfect Circle and also Queens of the Stone Age.