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There's no window in this room
Not that I really miss the view
It's just that I may soon forget
The way the grass looks when it's wet
It seems too sad to call this home
However, I've had time to think
About the past and write this song
I'm running out of ink
I'm trying hard to read your mind
Built a machine to travel time
"Blessing the globe with pestilence"
This is my magic residence
It seems too sad to call this home
However, I've had time to think
The medication does not work
There's poison in my drink
"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the lord my soul to keep,
if I should die before I wake,
then that's just my luck, that's just my luck"
They never told me they were going to put me away [x4]
I am not insane
I am not crazy
I am not insane
I am not crazy
I made a magic wand today
Maybe I'll wish myself away
Next to the ocean where birds sing
"These are a few of my favorite things"
It seems so sad to call this home
However, I've had time to think
About the past and what went wrong
I'm running out of ink
Oh the sickness
The sadness
I can't think
I can't think
Not that I really miss the view
It's just that I may soon forget
The way the grass looks when it's wet
It seems too sad to call this home
However, I've had time to think
About the past and write this song
I'm running out of ink
I'm trying hard to read your mind
Built a machine to travel time
"Blessing the globe with pestilence"
This is my magic residence
It seems too sad to call this home
However, I've had time to think
The medication does not work
There's poison in my drink
"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the lord my soul to keep,
if I should die before I wake,
then that's just my luck, that's just my luck"
They never told me they were going to put me away [x4]
I am not insane
I am not crazy
I am not insane
I am not crazy
I made a magic wand today
Maybe I'll wish myself away
Next to the ocean where birds sing
"These are a few of my favorite things"
It seems so sad to call this home
However, I've had time to think
About the past and what went wrong
I'm running out of ink
Oh the sickness
The sadness
I can't think
I can't think
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Astute observation.
This sounds like something out of the "China White" storyline, like where the gardener first comes into view.
I saw a video of it, portraying a man who was in a mental hospital. He had several progressive flashbacks to his life before, involving a girlfriend who dumped him. At the end, you find out his "magic wand" is a starter pistol, a garage gun. He goes to the ex's house and sees her with a new boyfriend. Keep in mind, it appears to have been months since he got dumped. When she doesn't take him back, he takes out the gun, shoots the new man, and perforates the girl. Then it goes to more proof of insanity.
Apparently, they never said they'd put him away. This shows me that the cops didn't think that there was enough to prove insanity, but... if you think of the man in this song as the Gardener, it makes perfect sense.
Perhaps this is a side-story to "China White"? I suppose we can't really be certain. But, it certainly seems that way to me.
i feel like this song is about getting over the effects that drugs have on the way you think and process things. obviously there's alot going on in his head. his life, his love, and the fact that he thinks he's going crazy but doesn't want to beleive it.<br /> <br /> also i agree with oggeymoggel about it being a side story to china white. makes perfect sense. reflecting on what he has done, with a murders mentality.