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A very interesting song. Puns abound. The pill says "There's no time for metaphors," then uses one. "Life is a placebo masquerading as a simile" is a metaphor, as noted above, yet contains "as," the word associated with similes.

As for the meaning: There are a few possibilities. The one requiring the least imagination is that the singer is a drug addict of some sort. Maybe just an aspirin addict, for all we know. :-) Anyway, we have a pill of some sort at the bottom of a bottle. The singer has a shaky hand. Coffee's not strong enough for him. The movements of the pill disintegrate his mind. All the imagery fits as a drug use song of some sort.

Another possibility: the song could be about a hangover (the shaky hand), and a person taking Alka Seltzer to calm the symptoms. The "favorite song" could be the famous "plop plop fizz fizz." Black coffee is another popular remedy for hangovers.

Yet another possibility: I belive the whole song is about a caffine addiction. The pill is a caffine pill, which you can get at a drug store easily. The Black coffee thing is about how he has built up a tolerance for it and the caffine in it won't work.