| Clinic – Distortions Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[the_elevating_trick:27970] Yeah, I think you're right and I've always thought that. I wrote a detailed breakdown here. It hink it's "I leave care" as in hospital care, but also, being free of the disease, he leaves "care" as in being carefree. | |
| Clinic – Distortions Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I read this lyric differently than everyone else. I'm very convinced this is a song about illness. Ade Blackburn is taking on the persona of a person suffering from an illness that could be terminal, presumably cancer. I'd like to know completely What others so discreetly Talk about when they leave me Not that I notice when they're gone To me this says "What are my family and the doctors discussing in the hallway, next room. These painkillers keep putting me to sleep" It's eery and so scary I don't know who to worry Your sister came to bait me Oh your sister came to bait me But I'll love it when you blink your eyes This speaks to the worry of death, and how family members often give false hopes. I want to know my body I want this out not in me I want to know no secrets yet I want this out not in me" clearly speaks to wanting the disease to be gone. To me that seems to be cancer. "I want to know no secrets yet" is a veiled "I don't want to know the answers to the burning questions, those answers that we presume to get upon death. He wants to live. Then some optimism... I'll leave Oh I'll leave care It's saved me once too often You'll never know her often But back to the realization...in this case the baby could be his lover, and he might be saying that he thought he would outlive her, or he could be reflecting on what she sees. Ultimately he would rather that she live, he loves it when she shows she is alive (blinks her eyes). I've pictured you in coffins My baby in a coffin But I'll love it when you blink your eyes The final lyrics are optimistic, and the music initially speeds up to suggest this freedom from "care" (meaning both medical care and worry). The leakage is a reference to a common requirement for suction on a wound during recovery from surgery. Drainage tubes are something anyone who has had surgery has had to deal with and they certainly want that out as soon as possible. I want to know my body I want this out not in me I want no other leakage I want to know no secrets yet I'll leave Oh I'll leave No I'll leave care Free of distortions |
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