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Chemicals Lyrics
Chemicals will hit you
Chemicals will knock you down
Is it over 'cause you feel no pain
Throwing me around
You attack my head with numbers
You attack my room with things of glass
You attack my neighbors
'Til you've found someone who's cleaning up the mess
You are no good
You are no good
'Cause I know you can't sleep
'Til you know your overbearance
Makes me creep
You are no good
You are no good
'Cause I know you can't sleep
'Til you know your overbearance
Makes me creep
(repeat all)
(repeat chorus)
Chemicals will knock you down
Is it over 'cause you feel no pain
Throwing me around
You attack my room with things of glass
You attack my neighbors
'Til you've found someone who's cleaning up the mess
You are no good
'Cause I know you can't sleep
'Til you know your overbearance
Makes me creep
You are no good
'Cause I know you can't sleep
'Til you know your overbearance
Makes me creep
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It took me a couple of years to figure this out, but now it is safe to say: This song is about the internet.
funny thing, that's what my dad says as well!
funny thing, that's what my dad says as well!
@anek61 why?
@anek61 why?
@gravedadzero Well, for one, I think it is the sample of a dial-up modem from the nineties that gives it away. Not surprisingly, Martin (keyboards) has the computer-as-human metaphor in a lot of his solo work as Console (e.g. 14 Zero Zero, Homeless Ghost). The internet addiction can be a shortcut for the lovelessness script that The Notwist explore over and over again.
@gravedadzero Well, for one, I think it is the sample of a dial-up modem from the nineties that gives it away. Not surprisingly, Martin (keyboards) has the computer-as-human metaphor in a lot of his solo work as Console (e.g. 14 Zero Zero, Homeless Ghost). The internet addiction can be a shortcut for the lovelessness script that The Notwist explore over and over again.
@anek61 I'm kinda seeing it. The part about chemicals, still unsure, but the other part fits. I'm at least sure it's not about chemicals per se.
@anek61 I'm kinda seeing it. The part about chemicals, still unsure, but the other part fits. I'm at least sure it's not about chemicals per se.
He's obviously singing to a chemist about the dangers of toxic chemicals. The chemicals made the person he's singing to crazy, and they started attacking everybody including his poor neighbor. Just kidding. It's a love song. Tragic one anyway.
This is the first Notwist song that I heard and is still one of my favorites. I don't think that it is a love song, not quite anyway. Though it probably is about his girlfriend, but it seems the main focus is on the "chemicals" or drugs that she is on and how it is hard to deal with.
One of their best.