"Sober" portrays a toxic relationship where one partner struggles with alcohol addiction. The speaker knows that their partner is incapable of loving them properly when they are sober. The relationship started at the wrong time, and it seems to be a momentary infatuation. The partner knows how to make the speaker want them when they are high, but once they come down, they realize that the relationship is over. The speaker recognizes that when they wake up sober, their partner's love is not the same as when they were drunk.

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