Under the guise of a traditional breakup song, Eminem uses “Never Love Again” to cleverly describe his relationship with drug abuse, a topic he has returned to various times before, most notably on his albums Relapse and Recovery.

However, the track can still be interpreted as a heart-break song, directed towards his divorced wife Kim or even a newer partner.

The lyrics have an interesting structure. It starts off as an innocuous love song, but the drug metaphor gets stronger as the song goes on, until the sound effects after the outro confirm that the subject of the song was pills indeed.