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According to mr. van Zandt himself, in a live recording in Carrboro, NC (US), from 1977, he very briefly states that it is about a man who tries to quit smoking but can't. However, there are rumours that he wrote it while sick with pneumonia, another rumour has it that it's about a coal miner (which fits well with the theme of gold later in the song).
Personally, I think it's one of the songs affected by van Zandt's infamous lyrical ambiguity, which provokes me to make of it what I can - much like the rest of life, eh?
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