Fine place for a day full of breakdowns
takes more than a meltdown to show us how
throw a tack on the road, stop the meatplow
got a bullet but it ain't mine.
They got these pictures of everything
to break us down, yeah to break me down
they make us hate and we make it bleed.
But I got a lover and yeah
she shows me how,
to understand it, yea to understand
I got a brother and well
he show me how,
to make amends, yeah to make amends
with it.
Take a break from the mousetrap we call home
takes more than a message to make me smile
I can feel when she kisses me sleeping
but not when the news is on.
takes more than a meltdown to show us how
throw a tack on the road, stop the meatplow
got a bullet but it ain't mine.
They got these pictures of everything
to break us down, yeah to break me down
they make us hate and we make it bleed.
But I got a lover and yeah
she shows me how,
to understand it, yea to understand
I got a brother and well
he show me how,
to make amends, yeah to make amends
with it.
Take a break from the mousetrap we call home
takes more than a message to make me smile
I can feel when she kisses me sleeping
but not when the news is on.
Lyrics submitted by dsfire
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I guess that sort of makes sense.
and then looking for help from friends and family to keep you on the straight and narrow.
with it." This, of course, is his sponsor.
I would have to guess the parts,
"But I got a lover and yeah she shows me how, to understand it, yea to understand"
and
"Take a break from the mousetrap we call home. Takes more than a message to make me smile. I can feel when she kisses me sleeping. But not when the news is on."
are be about a woman he's interested in who attends an outside 12-step meeting the treatment facility takes its clients to weekly, and him daydreaming about her later.
And in rehab, they have pictures of EVERYTHING- every aspect of what addiction to drugs and alcohol will do to you if you don't quit. They show them to you to break down your walls of denial.
Rehab is a "Fine place for a day full of breakdowns." It always "takes more than a meltdown to show us how" to get better in rehab.
1. "They got these pictures of everything to break us down... They make us hate and we make it bleed" -- could very well be a reference to the Two Minutes Hate, during which citizens were made to watch videos to inspire a hatred towards the state's enemies.
2. "I got a lover and she shows me how to understand" -- a reference to Julia, Winston's forbidden lover. She is a thought-criminal like Winston.
3. "I got a brother and he shows me how to make amends" -- Big Brother uses the Two Minutes Hate to drain the citizens of feeling by forcing them to use up so much emotion during this exercise. This could very well be construed as "making amends" with the state.
I'm not totally convinced that this is what STP had in mind writing the song, but I think the parallels are pretty interesting.
very good point, I am certain he read the book and is relating a possible dysphoria he is experiencing just as Orwell writes in the book.