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Interpretation:
1. "Sweat" introduces water for the first time. "Feels like I'm swimming in a dream within a dream." As far as I'm concerned, this song is about life. Perhaps a deja vu experience, or LSD flashback inspired the song. The main idea is that life is a dream... a sea, and that it's all been said and done. We are just treading water, but perhaps it's a beautiful ocean we are swimming in.
2. The first funny song on the album, "Hush" is an assault on censors. The video has the same message.
3. "Part of me" was always elusive to me. Maynard (or whoever) has become so close with somebody that he thinks that person should die-- perhaps for being a hypocrite; "You don't judge...." The common ideas of the song are that we always hate the ones we love and we hate those things that we see in ourselves.
4. "Underneath the skin and jewlery there is a wall that is cold and ugly, and she's cold as hell." Simply put: people are not always what they seem. Here is this person who looks beautiful yet is really ugly. "I am frightened too" seems to be a continuation of "Part of me." In this song though, the emotion seem to be empathy-- not anger.
5. "Jerk Off" is an attack on hypocrisy at first glance. Personally though, I think the song is more about recognizing that right and wrong exist without rules. "I should shoot you myself," I think is said sarcastically. Consequences do NOT dictate our actions.
6. I do not see "Opiate" as an attack on Christ or Christians, but as an attack on Christianity. The anger is towards a system that has encouraged exclusion and homophobia while discouraging empathy and humility: two of Christ's principle teachings.
Drugs are bad purely for pleasure. Use, don't abuse. Oh, and of course laugh at the retards who abuse.
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