Janet, I swore
If you walked through the door
I won't call you tomorrow
And in your escape
You forgot in your haste
Your pills for tomorrow

And you need to take three pills each day
Otherwise the virus will surely gain
It'll travel through your veins
To your heart, to your brain
Ending all the life that you seem to know

And Janet you called
You cried on the phone
Said darkness surrounds you
Well, death sucks, I know
It's your time to go
Janet, I love you

And you need to take three pills each day
Otherwise the virus will surely gain
Travel through your veins
To your heart, your brain
Ending all the life that you seem to know

It's just, you hurt me so much
As I crried and I begged
Just one more day and one night
You left me in pain

So stop the sounds from your heart
As you cry and you beg
For just one more day and one night
It is too late


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    A lover with cancer or some other deadly disease; She's far into death and crashing fast.

    zebraprinton January 13, 2008   Link
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    first off, these lyrics are not correct. and one simple incorrect word can alter the meaning of a song.

    Janet I swore if you walked through the door I wont call you tomorrow and in escape forgot in your haste your pills for tomorrow and you need to take three pills each day otherwise the virus will surely gain travel through your veins, to your heart, to your brain, ending all the life that you seem to know. And Janet you called you cried on the phone said darkness surrounds you well death sucks i know but its your time to go Janet I love you and you need to take three pills each day otherwise the virus will surely gain travel through your veins, to your heart, your brain, ending all the life that you seem to know. Its just, you hurt me so much as i cried and i begged for just one more day and one night you left me in pain so Stop; the sounds from your heart as you cry and you beg for just one more day and one night its too late.

    Possibly- just possibly... this isnt a sad song about losing a lover to a disease...but an angry song about breaking up with a lover because of their addiction to drugs.

    calic0misfiton January 16, 2008   Link
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    it could also be HIV. there are three pills normally taken, the azt. the virus gaining would also make sense in this case, since the farther along it goes, the less your body can fight.

    peruru84on February 02, 2008   Link
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    maybe it's a mixture of both. angry/sad song about the death of a lover because they cheated on them and received HIV.

    ...maybe.

    rascacieloson May 21, 2008   Link
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    In my interpretation.

    The song is about a man who loved a woman, Janet, but she'd keep leaving him so the love developed into a powerful desire to control her.

    So when she left him again, he noticed that she'd left her pills. Perhaps she had been suffering from a disease.

    When she called up, dying, he tells her that it's her time to go, meaning he doesn't love her anymore to protect her from anything, he wants to save himself from the pain.

    It's a bitter, angry song with hurtful revenge.

    haunted_soulon December 16, 2008   Link
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    I like calic0misfit's idea. First of all, the official lyrics are indeed wrong and his lyrics are accurate. Second, I do think that it's a song of vengeance and hatred. The music doesn't exactly fit the description of sad. It's a bit somber in the beginning but the tone of it becomes very sharp and a tad hateful. So I think that they got into a fight over something such as her cheating on him and as she hastily left, she dropped her pills for some disease that she has. And I think that he found out this way. So I think that she called to tell him that she was dying and she needed her pills to hang on, but he won't give them back. It seems like that to me. He wants her to die for putting him into so much pain. And also I'm guessing that she has AIDs or something which would make it even more ironic. Since she cheated on him and probably got them in that act.

    theguardiandemonon June 05, 2009   Link

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