Overdose

A memory for those of us sick and suffering, Hurt has sung us a familiar scene.

The meaning of this song is isolated when the narrator speaks to Morpheus, his God, his dependence.

Some of us want to believe it's about a girl - which is why this song is artful - but it is not, it's about drugs. I am uncertain if the drug is referring to a sleep meds (bec Morpheus is the god of dreams), or if it referring to opiates (specifically morphine, whose name is based on Morpheus). Either way, both options being sedatives, the sufferer is yearning for a return to a past feeling ("the real thing") of sedation - when the dream/high is so intense that he is convinced it is reality.

The chronology of the narrator's suffering is debatable. One can say that he is about to take his first dose; or the song begins mid-story, when the sufferer has already experienced this alternative reality. "Cause nothing is happening" can refer to inexperience when using a drug for the first time, or the need to escape right away when dependent. Either way, it's early in his new addiction bec he starts of taking just one dose.

This familiar scene continues with the torture and insanity of addiction, pleading self-justification and frustration as a drive to use more and more.

My comments are incomplete and used to help framework the scene. We all hear this song differently, which is why it is artful.

I want to end off by also saying that it is unclear if the sufferer is begging for his addiction to end or for his dream/high to never end. It could also be both, in either order, since the lyrics change from "don't you ever try to bring me back" to "don't you ever try to take me back."

---sick and suffering

what i feel is that its about a woman, who said that she loved him, which he believed and fell in love with her, but afterwards she left him for another guy and hes taking drugs because he cant believe its happening.

This song is not about some woman, it is about a guy and his love for and addiction to the drug Morphine named after the greek god Morpheus (appearing as a clue to which drug this song is about). As any drug-user knows an addiction is very similar to an ordinary lovestory, it follows the same pattern and attract the same part of the brain. The beginning of this song expresses feelings of a love that is lost, abandonment and broken promises. This stage in a drug-addicts "relationship" with the drug is inevitable, the body and the mind needs larger doses to feel that wonderful sensation mistaken for love. The guy can no longer connect with his love Morphine in the same way as he used to and he feel that the drug have betrayed him. Also a very common conclusion when you are addicted/in love with a drug. This dont sounds logical to a non-user but the next step might do. When you think you are about to loose someone you love it triggers you to try even harder to get that loving sensation back. And that is why he takes more and more Morphine hoping to get the warm and loving touch back and when it does not work he gets more and more desperate screaming out his agony to Morpheus. And then he comes to the breaking-point when he accuses his love (Morphine/Morpheus) she has giving him false promises and then leaving him at his worst. And he continues to take more and more Morphine still searching for the love this drug now is unable to give him. When you are a drug-user its not unlikely to fall in love with a new drug and althoug you now deep inside neither this love will last forever you suppress this thoughts. Probably the effect of the Morphine in this song had changed character and the guy did not feel how intoxicated he really was. At the very end of this song there are voices saying "dont die" and a guitar playing only to stop in a way suggesting the guitarplayer dies while playing.

fucking love it ... man i love Hurt, very different but still good.

probably my favotrite hurt songs ,great song ,like plasticpeople said its about drug addiction

i love this song. i love how the man repeats his words over and over and is trying to justify his overdose. I used this because she didnt want me, because i believe she wanted me for a second and i wanted it to be real. So he drugs up on everything he can think of, so that in his mind, he'll believe that she is his. But what does Morpheus tie into this? Hurt has alot of allusions in their writing. not to mention: drugs(of any kind) are a way to kill boredom. The way he repeats himself though kinda mimicks the way a person responds when they're on something. hes begging for attention. and you can tell towards the end, his voice becomes weaker and more stressed. He's breaking down.

Now i completely agree, with the idea before, but personally i feel the meaning being expanded from just a girl, to a man's God. Mostly comeing from many of other of Hurts songs which seem to be both talking about a man's girl and a man's God. I think the narrator is going through some major type of depression/bi-polar and and feels he can never acheive happies and"needing that thing we call fun" he escapes his pain and rejects his Gog for the god Morphious (drugs) and his wonderful dream that has made him feel better in the past, but now he is addicceted and built up a resistance, which drives him to overdose. My main idea is that it has to be dealing with an unexpected revelation of a seemingly inpersonal and non-responsive God, and now he blames him. He begins to reject all the notients of a benevolent God, and ask for "one reason to think that [God is] decent"

This song brings up many meanings for me. It is also very relevant to my situation at the moment (being ignored by someone I like).

The question pertaining to Morpheus is a hard one. In my opinion, when he is talking to Morpheus and attacking him...it is because morpheus isn't supllying him with any more dreams, seeing as morpheus primarily presents visions of humans in dreams (his lover).

The overdose part may be tied to sleeping pills, as he wants to escape to his dreams where he can see her again (although, as mentioned before, Morpheus is denying him this).

Then towards the end he is justifying his 'drug' use and giving morpheus a reason to present him with an image of his lover by saying

"No holding back now! Give me the real thing! I've got a reason When I am alone"

this one is my fave of both volumes...eveything bout this one frm music to lyrics to the voice of J. makes u believe in his sufferin and how mad he feels...

I believe this song is about someone who has been left or hurt by a partner, and as a result is taking drugs. Morpheus is a reference to the drug Morphine. I think this is one of the best on the album, apart from Rapture and Danse Russe. So that's my interpretation, I love the band and all their music.