This song is by Steve Kilbey and appears on the album Narcosis + (1997).
I knew this man, he had some kind of fatal affliction.
Which dripped his spirit behind him as he went on down the highway.
Lashings of money and flattery, and a charmed, but not charming life.
Who can describe the agony of this gradual soul depletion?
Essence oozed, and the void moved ever closer.
His jaded gaze and disappeared into the nothingness of his feeling.