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I think when Stevie says "Ooh the tar people are back again, sad, but very true" I think she is referencing to the heroin addicts she saw at rehab. Some probably left right after she got there and were back before she left. And the fact that they relapsed is "sad, but very true." And I think in this song she is really afraid of relapsing on coke after she leaves betty ford. I think she is looking back and seeing the terrible effects coke had on her life, and how she said she vowed to never "come from a place of fear". I think the last thing she wanted was to be a drug addict but somehow it happened and it took a toll on her life, and now she is reflecting on that, not only seeing what it did to her life, but what it did to others who were close to her and also addicted to coke (beautiful faces, not so beautiful anymore). She is realizing that she needs to be done with coke for forever, and that she is not going to be like those tar people who come back again.