| COG – Bitter Pills Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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The bitter pill is LSD. It enables dissolution of ego and thus, an objective look at your life. The song is about taking LSD and feeling as if your previous self has died after the trip, as a result of all your realizations about yourself and what you are at essence as a human. Unaware of the model, I was taught to follow. Baptised through the grapevine, - Describes the process of unconscious assimilation into culture and the social contract we experience as children Rescued by a daydream, Back down where I, Found the open door. - LSD can produce a dreamlike state of consciousness, as well as enabling breakthroughs in your thought process. And from the maps that I'd followed, Came the thoughts that I'd borrowed. - Maps = books, writings of other people. The writer acknowledges these thoughts are not his own, and that he was inspired by others to think about things. A bitter pill I swallowed, Cleaned my mind out, So I could explore. - By removing your ego, you remove all bias. This is done to objectively explore and understand your own mind. Plagiarised my reactions, All my life an abstraction, But if I'm more than memories, Makes me wonder, Who I was before. - More commentary on the unconscious learning of behaviours. As a child you copy the reactions of others when learning how to communicate. LSD undoes this temporarily by dissolution of the ego, leading the writer to realise that he has learned his reactions through mimicry. I threw away all my armour, Trying to find out, Who I was before. - More references to the removal of ego in search of new meanings/realizations about yourself |
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