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Dead Slate Pacific Lyrics
at my low point
I went to a professional
he asked me some questions
sent me to a doctor
there’s a moment there,
when you’re under a doctor’s care
when you’re safe and hopeful
punched in the code
ran up the stairwell
he asked more questions
gave me celexa
that’s when I really knew
the only thing standing between
me and that long rope over a carpenter’s beam
was you
I went off the pills
bought my ticket
I used to think
there was nothing between us
just 6,000 miles of
the dead, slate pacific
but on that united flight
in a white hot panic I
sank to the bottom of the sea
my countless horrible creatures
complicated undersea secrets
if I didn’t go diving there
with a spear gun, knife and flare
how would I ever make it through
that’s when I really knew
the only thing standing between
me and that long rope hung on a carpenter’s beam
was you
I went to a professional
he asked me some questions
sent me to a doctor
when you’re under a doctor’s care
when you’re safe and hopeful
ran up the stairwell
he asked more questions
gave me celexa
the only thing standing between
me and that long rope over a carpenter’s beam
was you
bought my ticket
I used to think
there was nothing between us
just 6,000 miles of
the dead, slate pacific
in a white hot panic I
sank to the bottom of the sea
complicated undersea secrets
if I didn’t go diving there
with a spear gun, knife and flare
how would I ever make it through
the only thing standing between
me and that long rope hung on a carpenter’s beam
was you
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Celexa is a form of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, which, in simpleton's terms, is an antidepressent. Essentially, the narrator of the song is deeply depressed (hence the celexa) over separation from a lover or friend far across the ocean
"I used to think there was nothing between us/just 6000 miles of the dead, slate pacific"
Also, he admits that only the person he so yearns for can make him happy again, something no drug could ever instill in him,hence:
that's when I really knew the only thing standing between me and that long rope on a carpenter's beam was you.
^That, my friends, is a beautiful, beautiful lyric.
I think the 'you' in "the only thing standing between me and that long rope over a carpenter�s beam was you" is the Celexa
This is such a beautiful song.
It's also not the first time John has written about antidepressants; "Amitrypteline," from "Life and Death," is one of my absolute favorites, in the form of a farewell letter from a person court ordered to go on medication.