your question:

09/02/2023 R.walker

Is nicotina based on a real person that you observed in your days of playing bars?
I’ve been trying to decipher the lyrics
Is part of it?
“ I know the car, the kids, the house, the bills, ——————————-? Gonna have to make it up to yourself someday”
And then something about a heart attack.
By the way the song also sounds good at half temp but why shouldn’t it?!

my answer:

Wow, you’re really reaching back. There was a woman that song was loosely based on (no pun intended) but was more of a general social observation. At 18, I found that world completely bizarre and fascinating. And in the late ‘80s you could still smoke in bars. I believe the lyrics are “….the bills, the pain that kills..so get obesely fat and have another heart attack”