Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)

I agree with Tara. It's about society's use of perscription drugs to deal with problems rather then using compassion and dealing with the problems with will power.

Indeed, even the band said this song is about Ritalin and its misuse by a good part of the nation. On a broader scale it also encompasses their views on how we're becoming what I call "a nation of pill-popping blobs". They make the medicine, push the medicine on you, lead us to believe we need more, and then we're screwed for life. This can be seen through many of the lyrics above, especially "Over and over a slave became." Pretty soon we're going to destroy our own biology and ACTUALLY become dependent upon drugs as a means for survival.

Irate said it correctly. Pete Loeffler stated that one of his friends was suffering from the drug Ritalin, and this inspired him to write the song. If you've seen the video, its kinda like a visual of what people who take ritalin have to deal with, because many of them sit and daydream all day, and ritalin is supposed to help them concentrate. The images of the Angel, the shark, the mini golf set, the green button, and the scenery where Sam plays the drums are all objects within the cubicle of the victim. And he also sees a picture of two doctors on a magazine, which causes him to remember them constantly forcing and offering him to take more drugs, and they look like peppermints because they are supposed to be good for you. Towards the end, the phone begins to ring, and you can see the green light of the button flash, which draws his mind's attention, and causes his conscience to kinda "levitate" over to the light. Of course, sometimes ritalin does not work, which is exactly why pete picks up the phone call, and then hangs up, and begins to stare around again

i don't know what the hell it means but it is one hell of a song

its about ritalin..... vitamin R is the street name for it

As everyone's said--it's about Ritalin, they said so themselves. but i just thought i'd add a bit to it--i take ritalin (aka Vitamin R--i call it that, actually, to the girl who sells it to me and around people i don't want to know) out of prescription, so i'm kind of... drawn to this song.

THe Atomic Punk: "I'm not sure if you can actually get high off of Ritalin, but if you can, then you're dulled down and you probably could feel like floating on air." yes, you can. for me, though, i only actually got high the first time. i was completely giddy and hyper and could barely... um... i don't know, stay inside myself, if that makes sense. it was an amazing feeling--i was fucking THRILLED about everything. if you had told me my parents had died i would've taken it with a huge grin and been running around cheering, even though i love them to death. after that first time, though, it kind of... i don't get strong 'bad' emotions like sadness or anger when i'm on it, and i concentrate really well.

by the way--Vitamin R is a legit thing for this song to be called, because in the world of... 'underground' ritalin, so to speak, that's what it means. just to clear that up for some people.

again to THe Atomic Punk: "This line also seemed to me like it could be a marijuana reference. You know, passing hits on a joint. But this probably just meaning drug dealing with Ritalin, you can pick and choose which meds you want, or you can distribute it to profit off of other people's addiction." yeah, i'd interpret it as ritalin dealing. i get my Rs from a friend of mine who has been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD (i don't remember which) for years. she basically chooses which to take, how many to take, how many to sell, etc. i'm constantly at her mercy, cos i don't have much money and ritalin generally goes for $5 per pill, so she's always choosing if she'll let me have, say, 5 for $20 instead of $5 for $25.

and finally, Evil_Ducky_Lord--ritalin is definitely not a way of keeping people from thinking for themselves. it doesn't do that for me, anyway.

This song is about vulnerable narcissism. Each "verse" is the next stage of the real action ship. If you love me, then you have the key, to fix my own NPD, so that means we can still commiserate together about "them". You haven't used it yet, why haven't you used it yet if you love me? I have extreme psychic powers, levitation is obviously possible, I will just focus on that instead of you. Why are you pushing it instead of just letting me ignore you with no problem when I can become powerful by myself? Yes they did do the original thing to me, but you are mad when I pay no attention to you and/or to your feelings at all while I am your fiancé, so now it is you, and not the original people who actually abused me legitimately, who are making me a slave to myself as I say all these things in the song. Now I am screaming and raping or hitting or revealing secrets or using the most extreme or abusive insults on you... Panic makes remorse, I have hurt the one I love, I am guilty, so therefore I guess I don't love her anymore. I refer to myself in the third person because he's alone and vulnerable narcissism contains a component of schizophrenia. I can suffer now and have anxiety and panic or scream abuse, but I can't suffer then because then I would have to remember and I will forever pretend to forget and suffer now instead.

I'm suprised that no one has posted yet, so I'll just be the first. ^-^. I don't know what this song means ( yes, I am a little stupid), but a great song by Chevelle.

This is one of the first sites I have seen with the correct lyrics. I don't know what the song is about for sure, but it is awesome. I have an internship at a radio station and have heard the new cd already. It is so awesome. They did a fantastic job on this new album, and the loeffler brothers just show they are becoming better musicians. People this is a cd actually worth buying.

so basically........awesome song! increadible cd!

It's about Ritalin...