NOTE:: These are my interpretations to 'My Medicine' by The Pretty Reckless, one of my favorite songs. I've seen a lot of mixed opinions about the meaning of this song, so I decided to submit my own. Still, I fully respect all other interpretations.
The song is about drugs and alcohol, and a person who's addicted to them. She's singing the song to someone who is important to her, probably a boy. My best guess is that she's trying to forget him.
"Where you hurt where you sleep/and you sleep were you lie": how the drugs affect your body (the 'highs' and 'down's).
"Now you're in deep and/now you're gonna cry": how they affect you emotionally.
"You got a woman to your left/and a boy to your right/start to sweat so hold me tighter": the pressure and the impulse to take a drug or a drink, and how she's so used to it that she needs it to feel all right.
CHORUS: She just took whatever they gave her, without knowing what it was, and she doesn't care.
"Somebody's in my head again": how she's losing control.
"I'll drink what you leak/and I'll smoke what you sigh": she'll take anything they give her to feel better.
"Straight across the room with a look in your eye": she sees the 'special person' with someone else, and, again, she feels like she needs a drink.
"There's a tiger in the room/and a baby in the closet": the baby is the 'innocent' part of her, and it's hiding; while the tiger is the wild part, which has control.
"For another drink mom/I don't even want it": she's starting to feel sick and wants to stop it.
"But then I turn around and think I see/someone that looks like you": she remembers someone that she didn't want to remember, so she decides to keep drinking.
