| Amanda Palmer – Institutionalized (Suicidal Tendencies cover) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's a trip inside the head of some already sliding down a long road of narcissism. Man, I like I met her (not the singer, but the one she's performing) back when she was still in high school -- raging, raging just like that. I watched her screaming at her mom, calling her a bitch because it was her mom's "job" to take care of her, to give her what she needed, but not to run her "fuckin" life. Now, twenty-five years later, she's sucking at the nipple of the very State she claims to hate, brain-damaged, unable to even achieve a real high, talking the same way to her own kids that she did to her mother. Until they started going crazy and had to be pulled away before they ended up dead or sold for sex to get a few more bucks for drugs ... well actually we were a bit too late getting to the five year old boy. Without the music, the words are almost ambiguous -- maybe the girl's right and the parents are totally clueless violators of her existence; maybe the mom's right and the girl is totally clueless, already seeing through the warped lens of whatever she happens to be on at the moment. The point is, true vision or not, the girl herself means it. But with the music, with the hysteria she is unable to control, there is too little doubt. Sure, be treated like you're insane can make you insane; but that's not what the deeper message of the lyrics imply. No one's keeping her trapped there. There's a few hundred million people out there selling burgers and fries or whatever else in order to have the right to get out of their parents' house; the fact that she doesn't says a lot about the girl. The sad thing is she'll actually win a lot of the first rounds, or appear to. She'll get out of the institution. The girl I'm thinking of certainly managed to, within a matter of weeks. The illusion of sobriety, of keeping it together is easy to maintain at first, especially when the price appears to be your freedom. But she'll be singing those same lyrics to her boy friend or girl friend, then to the next one after that, and after that. I actually think the song would be stronger by building up longer, working up through the stages of alienation, of choices. There should be at least five sections instead of just the three. |
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