Extract from a Newsweek article
On the album’s taut second single (which she describes as a “kind of breakup-adjacent”), Dacus chides herself for developing a dependency on another person.
I’m personally very adverse to addiction /
I don’t even drink coffee. I try to avoid becoming reliant on any substance. The only addiction that I know I have experienced is to somebody else.
The theme is reflected through the song’s insistent refrain:
You’ve got addictions, too / It’s true
It’s the singer’s way of reminding herself that she has struggled with an addiction of her own.
The song is about being addicted to a person and cycling back to people even if your relationship has withered and it belongs in the past.