| Now It's Overhead – Let Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"I'm sick of living in this movie" soon after an addiction takes over you feel trapped, your doing the same thing over and over and your sick of it but stuck like a movie on repeat everyday. "No one here to hold" you lose/push away the people you care about and that care about you when you chase a feeling. "A chill is in my bones ..." On opiates, depending on how high your tolerance/dose, you can wake up sick every morning. This line and the next three speak about one of many completely horrific symptoms you put up with in between highs. This part of the song really hits me, like I know what he's going through, i've been there with a "chill" so awful, so deep inside, so relentless. "And it goes by Without stopping" to me I think this represents hopelessness. No hope of things changing, no hope that life can be anything different. "Her stuff is on the counter.................I wouldn't wish it on an enemy" These lines to me mean, what if I had never taken that first pill? where would my life be had I not become this? I think it could also mean to the songwriter what if i had never met this person ("her"). Often, meeting someone new, introduces drugs/addiction into ones life. With opiates most don't know what there getting into! Not wishing something on an enemy says a lot! Not only the withdrawals and being sick, but the mental high/low's, depression, self-confidence issues, feelings of worthlessness. It's all enough to drive you down further than you ever even thought you could possibly go. "And I can't hear....What my friends say" this line and the other about his "sister calling" refers to being blinded by your addiction, one can get so deep into it, the addiction masks all reason and logic. People tell you that you need help, but the addiction shouts louder at you...more!! and thats what you hear. "It won't let up" no breaks, no redo's, no mulligans on opiates, its an ever present need and it weighs on your mind and body and it won't let up. "Blood is pumping....etc" doesn't have any deeper meaning for me, just imagery. "The beat is systematic not the reason for my habit I just need a bigger picture to fill in the space" I'm not positive on the meaning of these lines, by my theory is its about how opiate addiction grows. Your body is just reacting to having opiates and changes to compensate, thus without the opiates your body is like a engine without oil, and you get symptoms/withdrawals. The more you use the more you need to get high. Tolerance can go up fast and you need a bigger dose to get the same effect. "Picture" being dosage. I need a bigger dosage to fill the need I have ("space") "I wont die" there is a way out of any situation, there is a last stand in every addict, with help (and its out there) this life of addiction is not the end. There is hope, even if you cannot see it. Obviously, this song has a lot of personal meaning for me. I've never felt compelled to comment on lyrics of any other song. |
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