| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Me and Mia Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm sure it's actually about eating disorders, but the first time I heard it, I thought it was about someone trying to get off drugs. Part of it was because I was mishearing the lyrics, but that's ok. Like I said, this isn't what the song was originally about, but what I heard in it. "As I was walking through a life one morning The sun was out, the air was warm but ohh, I was cold" When you're in withdrawal, you get cold and shaky. "Fighting for the smallest goal: to get a little self-control." You're trying to control your need for the drug. "Call your friends, 'cause we've forgotten What it's like to eat what's rotten, and what's eating you alive, might help you to survive." I thought this was the person no longer being able to take the world without drugs, so they take them again. The last 2 lines are how taking drugs can help you deal with stuff. The drugs eat you alive, but they're the only way you stop from suicide. "It was Ego who was flying the banner, Me and Mia, Ann and Ana, ohh, we'd been unkind." They alienated their friends because of their addiction. "And after a week of fighting, As more and more it seems the right thing" After a week of being off the drugs, they seem to be the best option. "Won't anybody here just let you disappear?" Disappear=die quietly out of the world "Sick to death of my dependence, Fighting food to find transcendence. Fighting to survive. More dead, but more alive. Cigarettes and speed to live, And sleeping pills to feel forgiven. All that you contrive, And all that you're deprived." The first line is obvious, and in the second line, I heard "food" as "through". It's easy to see the connection to drugs in the rest of the stanza, until the last 2 lines. Those are basically talking about the reason they do drugs: everything they try to be that they aren't, and everything that they never had. "They'll never see so clear." This describes how simple and clear things seem when you're high. |
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