Life Is Killing Me Lyrics
And for Christ's name did pay with pain
Modern day inquisition
What is the link between these crafts?
Doctors and thieves, they both
wear masks
Overpaid meat magicians
Would wipe my ass etched in feces
Will not cure your affliction
Doctors Jeckyll or Mengele
And your face too, they're just a blur
Can't improve my condition
Did not realize you had such power
I'd rather see a mortician
Your parents saved or had the bucks
Your education stems from luck
Future corpse: death by physician
So pull the plug, it's my damned life
Keep me alive to increase your bill
A Red Cross hell? - the hospital!
It's not suicide, simple mercy
Medical school don't make you God
Now I don't care what you've been taught
Just get me off this life support
It's not suicide, simply mercy
Obviously about someone on life support and who doesnt want to live like a veggie. He rather die with his dignity then being kept alive only by a machine. He has no chance of living... and is pissed at the doctors getting paid the big bucks for simply prolonging his unavoidable death.
I think this was written during all of Pete’s health struggles in the late 90s-2000s when this album was released. He was tired of constantly going to doctors to get shoved full of pills and hooked up to machines… song can’t get much clearer than this imo
Right on the nose. And I think it's interesting how he compares it to Jews and the Spanish Inquisition. He mentions Dr. Jekyll as wall as Mengele. Very few people know that Mengele was the Nazi doctor/scientist who did horrible experiements on the Jews during the Holocaust. Sorry about my tangent there, just a bit of history to tie it up with...