Enough

I don’t interpret this song as being about mental illness at all. When I listen to it I feel many of the lyrics apply to my own life and feelings and parts of the lyrics could apply to many normal people . I see it as someone paralyzed by anxiety. The remedy could suggest a way to escape from a temporarily unsatisfied and anxious life. I think the remedy could be a new love, a new passion, or in the absence of the finding of such a new hope, using a coping remedy to escape an unsatisfied reality such as drugs or alcohol. All of these avenues allow one to become another version of yourself, for better or worse. In terms of the remedy being not as good as it used to be, maybe that references drug tolerance, or maybe finding new love that doesn’t match the level of a past love. In general I get the sense that the person is fed up, exasperated and discontent with the way things are and harbors a feeling of isolation, helplessness and hopelessness of moving on with life. Not believing in anything might reference love, or hope, or even god. And everything one does, all the toil one experiences, the loves lost, the pain, the anxiety over responsibilities ends up fading away in the end, and to little consequence which can make one feel like not even trying because engaging those things is like harming one’s self voluntarily. The sense I get is the person is fighting two different extremes: seeking out life, passion, relationships, as well as facing anxieties, failures or choosing avoidance of further pain, failure and anxiety at the cost of living life to the fullest. And as far as I can tell, the avoidance side is winning out, but that doesn’t mean he’s depressed. We all feel some of these inadequacies, fears, anxieties and exhaustion with life at certain points, but as is stated early on “I will be back tomorrow”. So I don’t feel that darkness will win out ultimately, but we all struggle with and face the challenges of life, and that is the message that comes through for me when I hear this song. That is, sometimes we are fed up and need to tune out the world and then start fresh and face the world anew the next day.