they tell me i have to get out of bed
they tell me i have to keep up my strength
i've got to eat something
i'm hoping that the taste will kill me
i have agonized to find a different way
but there is no soothing
for the boiling of my skin
there is no comfort here

so what if i'm standing here?
i still hurt from my hair to my feet
i know this is nothing now
but once it was everything

they tell me i have to get up and dressed
they tell me i have to start getting out
i've got to keep busy
maybe exhertion will do me in
i have been defiled a thousand different ways
there is no pressure for the hemorraging
there is no healing me

so what if i'm walking now?
i still burn every time that i breathe
i know this is nothing now
but once it was everything

it rips me from my dreams
i swear i hear your voice
i run from room to room to find you

so what if i'm walking now?
i still burn every time that i breathe
i know this is nothing
nothing
to me this is everything


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    the general idea i got out of it is the feeling and the mundane everyday existance of living in an in patient treatment center... she starts with saying "they tell me i have to get out of bed they tell me i have to keep up my strength i've got to eat something" <----- They make rounds to make sure people are awake and moving, and the second and third line make me think the recovery placement is for drug addiction, or even for anorexia.

    "but there is no soothing for the boiling of my skin there is no comfort here

    so what if I'm standing here? i still hurt from my hair to my feet" <----- speaks to the pain she in, addicts when they are withdrawing are very weak, especially if its heroin, they don't / can't eat food. The feeling of withdrawing from heroin is described as wanting to pull off all ur skin often

    "i know this is nothing now but once it was everything" <------ refers to the addiction being everything

    "they tell me i have to get up and dressed they tell me i have to start getting out i've got to keep busy maybe exhertion will do me in" <----- the repetition of routine they drill into ur life when in recovery and in treatment centers

    jadedsugaron May 26, 2010   Link

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