Emotion Sickness

somewhere i saw a thing where daniel said this song is about pretending everything is fine and that u don't need help when its painfully obvious that you need to go on some form of medication. (Erupt again ignore the pill ) either way i'm in love with the part where he says "and all my friends say get up get up, won't u stp my pain?" it fits us all so well (i'm not proud of it but i have, at times, used my friends to make myself feel better, we all have)...just think about. this song kicks ass, daniel is an amazing writer!

As far as I knew, you can't get addicted to anti-depressants. Fair enough there is a possibility of side effects when you stop taking them, but that's all. In my opinion the addiction's to the depression itself. I don't know if anyone will understand this, but I think even though he feels so shitty in his depressed state, it has become a kind of 'comfort' when he's lost in his own dark world, he knows where he is, he feels more stable feeling depressed than not knowing what he's feeling or where his head's taking him. He's kindo of become dependent on his depression. He's become accustomed to a certain way of living. Ritualistic even. And when it goes away, what do you fill the gap with. That was a big load of crap I just typed, but it made me feel better. :S:

the video is amazing and it clears things up a lot.... i thinks it's about everything building up (anorexia, addictions, anxiety, depression, anger...) and never showing it up, swallowing it until you explode.... until everything you've tried to contain just tears you and your life apart and there's nothing you can do... the video expresses very well what i'm saying, this guy almost drowns in his own bedroom, he's all alone, he thinks a lot and can't do nothing about anything.... it's one of the most amazing songs i've ever heard, really... musically, it's truly a masterpiece, if daniel came up with the tunings and ideas all by himself (which i think he did) and helfgott and averything... lyrically it's so expressive... it's amazing...

I agree that the part about addict with no heroin seems to be used as a metaphor not literally. And I also agree that the song does have a strong feeling of depression, anxiety and dread. But other than that I think the song is really up to interpretation.

To me it's about someone who is miserable and trapped, unable to connect with those around him. Surrounded by negative emotions. Too much! And the burn my knees part I never understood. Watching the video the parts about the boy, face dead on the beach with knee braces unable to get up really seemed to be a metaphor for the guy's childhood self. Who was somehow crippled emotionally which is shown by the knee braces. He is unable to get up. He keeps screaming to get up. Won't you stop my pain. He is trapped in misery, hopelessness "everything is clearly dying".

People around him he is convinced have "distorted eyes" and can't see how terrible and hopeless and cruel it all is. In the video he is sitting on the couch at a party and someone has put a glass over a moth to trap it. He is watching the moth and he looks around at people having a good time. He feels trapped because he is unable to connect socially. He thinks of a bird trapped trying to fly out and he is able to relate more easily to it then the moth but through it all he still relates to that moth trapped so he frees it in sympathy and feeling he understands being trapped. A woman is sad and looking at him. And its like he can feel her pain and it is too much. He drowns alone in his misery. But really he is just alone in the room on the bed. He stands alone at the window of his apartment and there is only rain falling over his window. Because inside his emotional cage it is raining and misery but outside it isn't.

At the end of the video he is on the train and his eyes seem vacant and like he is somewhere else and kind of numb. He is not in pain.. so much as before. He sees person in the seat near him and he looks sort of strange. And then you see that he is going through the same miserable thing but he is too lost in his own problems to see it.

this song is about addiction- "Addict with no heroine" daniel johns has said that it is about his addiction to antidepressants, kinda proves it.

i just think this is their greatest song ever. it captures the whole scenario of depression and anxiety. and yeah, also being depending on antidepressants which really sucks. it's just so damn emotional. heart-breaking. powerful. whoa.

someone in colorguard used this song for their show and ill agree that it hink its about depression and drugs

i like the name...cleverness points....

i love the title! so many daniel john's lyrics are clever like that...they're fun to analyze =)

This song, to me, is about depression and addiction - to more than just drugs- if it's drugs at all. Maybe he's addicted to feeling numb, he wants to make everything go away, and he can't, because he's "An addict with no heroin", heroin being the numbness he craves, and he can't have it, he has no means of making his life better. He knows the fact that his eyes are distorted, he doesn't want to see everything decaying and dying around him. It's a hopeless song.