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The Answer to All Your Problems is in this Little Bottle Lyrics
Watch that movie.
Watch it.
Watch it.
Watch me.
Found me bottom-up, bottled-up, and refused since eye-ope.
But, he saw a suck, picked me up, and my spirit poured.
We lived mouth to mouth, mouth to south, hands around my neck.
Until shake to shout, shattered 'bout passed-out.
Lost count somewhat.
But, I could feel that call.
And where else could I go?
He said I had special powers, and saved my pitiful life.
Watch that movie.
Watch it.
Watch it.
Watch me.
Found him there that night, last in line of a trail of bottles.
Dying soldier who only slew the much weaker ones.
I stood there blinking, there drinking in the weight of the moment,
And cupped my hands to hold the last drops and thought,
“Should I make that call?
“Should I let time go?
“Should I call upon all my powers and save his pitiful life?”
The lights: midnight fluorescing.
Location: out-skirts and down.
And time's suspending.
I make that call,
That call,
That call, that call, that call, that call.
Watch it.
Watch it.
Watch me.
Found out that he did, finally did do it: drowned his sorrows.
Six years down I can't, still I can't dilute the thought:
That I'd bet there was someone there, a head clearer than mine was,
Who said “You're just an empty beer bottle, bottle, bottle, bottle,”
And never made that call.
Took the chance to go.
She knew she had special powers, and saved her pitiful life.
Watch it.
Watch it.
Watch me.
Found me bottom-up, bottled-up, and refused since eye-ope.
But, he saw a suck, picked me up, and my spirit poured.
We lived mouth to mouth, mouth to south, hands around my neck.
Until shake to shout, shattered 'bout passed-out.
Lost count somewhat.
But, I could feel that call.
And where else could I go?
He said I had special powers, and saved my pitiful life.
Watch it.
Watch it.
Watch me.
Found him there that night, last in line of a trail of bottles.
Dying soldier who only slew the much weaker ones.
I stood there blinking, there drinking in the weight of the moment,
And cupped my hands to hold the last drops and thought,
“Should I make that call?
“Should I let time go?
“Should I call upon all my powers and save his pitiful life?”
Location: out-skirts and down.
And time's suspending.
That call,
That call, that call, that call, that call.
Watch it.
Watch me.
Found out that he did, finally did do it: drowned his sorrows.
Six years down I can't, still I can't dilute the thought:
That I'd bet there was someone there, a head clearer than mine was,
Who said “You're just an empty beer bottle, bottle, bottle, bottle,”
And never made that call.
Took the chance to go.
She knew she had special powers, and saved her pitiful life.
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Per Young, the song is about a time where she saw someone who was dying and had to decide whether or not to go get help, or just let it happen.
Related, from an interview at AskMeAskMeAsk (dot) Me:
Q: If you could travel back in time and tell your younger self one thing, when would you travel to and what would you tell yourself?
A: I would go back to my involvement with my first boyfriend and tell myself “Run as fast as you can away from this person.” He was really a continuation of what my parents had done to me. He almost killed me twice — this is not a cutesy overstatement. He was abusive and suffocated me on two different occasions until I was passed-out and dying….then…..he would shake me until I was conscious again. I had such low self-esteem then. I had it in my mind that he was the only one I could relate to, but he stole a lot of my life. After him I never put up with anything that resembled abuse of any kind. I did learn. Some people don’t.