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Yeah, but I think it is more than just drugs. I think the song is about drugs and depression/suicide/giving up.

"Don't try to do it
Don't try to kill your time
Yeah, you might do it
Then you can't change your mind
You've got a hold on to your time
Till your break through these times of trouble"

And

"I saw you swinging
Yeah, swinging your mother's sword
And yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you're playing but
Sometimes the rules get hard
But if somebody left you out on a ledge
If somebody pushed you over the edge
If somebody loved you and left you for dead
You got to hold on to your time till you break
Through these times of trouble"
I think "mother's sword" refers to something that can kill you. Your mother birthed you, your mother's sword can end you.

"I saw you swinging" means that he was doing something that could take his own life.

My impression is that while the song is apparently inspired by or is about Wood's death, it seems to me it is also about not committing suicide, given the lyrics "you gotta hold onto your time until you break through these times of trouble"

That is how I chose to interpret it when I was going through a rough patch. It helped. May have saved me.