Don't Blame Me
“Lord, save me, my drug is my baby, I'll be using for the rest of my life”
The song builds its whole hook on addiction, the lover named as a drug the speaker will be using for the rest of her life, devotion and dependency made the same thing.
“If you walk away I'd beg you on my knees to stay”
Begging on her knees is the bargaining edge of obsessive love. She would drop down and plead rather than let him leave, and the posture measures how far she will lower herself to hold on.
“I once was poison ivy but now I'm your daisy”
Full analytical context awaits the Don't Blame Me episode extraction.
“Echoes of your name inside my mind”
The name-echoing figure carried inside the song's most ecstatic register, the lover's name re-sounding inside the speaker as part of the addiction-figure the bridge is building. The echo is interior ("inside my mind"), and what is being heard is exactly what was said before, only no longer chosen. The line uses the figure to mark possession-by-the-other: the speaker's interior space is occupied by the name's continuing return, which the song reads as ecstatic rather than threatened.
“For you I would fall from grace just to touch your face”
She would give up her standing with the divine, falling from grace, for nothing more than the touch of the beloved, devotion worth any loss.
love as addiction
“my drug is my baby”
Angela sets the drug-and-addiction simile of Death by a Thousand Cuts beside Don't Blame Me's my drug is my baby, the two songs reaching for the same dependency image from opposite emotional weather.
poison ivy to daisy
“I once was poison ivy, but now I'm your Daisy”
Uncle Jerry sets ivy beside the I once was poison ivy, but now I'm your Daisy line, the same plant turned from something that stings to something offered up.
the daisy, he loves me not
“I once was poison Ivy, but now I'm your Daisy”
“Daisy's bare naked. I was distraught. He loves me not.” — Wood
In Don't Blame Me the speaker becomes the lover's Daisy, traded up from poison ivy. Wood returns to that flower and strips it bare, picking 'he loves me not' from its petals as the old fortune game gives its verdict.