I Hate Myself

Drama In The Emergency Room

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can survive but I don't know if I want to. Turn off the machines. I've sprung a thousand leaks. I can feel everything. Listen. Get your fingers out from under my skin. Just let me lay back and drip. Paste up my parts and I'll be a bedridden Frankenstein with diseased mental faculty, a depression you can't remedy with your scalpels, your stitches and stainless steel, your arrogant medical zeal, I'm bleeding, infected, unsterile, I've got bugs that you can't cure. Doctor! Doctor! Doctor! Doctor! Doctor! Doctor! Doctor! Doctor! Doctor, are you listening? I'm trying to explain something, but you're not listening, like I can't speak.

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afraidofcrushes On Jan 11, 2002

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by xsweetmiseryx

24y ago

beautiful. period.

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by a thousand leaks

24y ago

this has to be the song of my life. when he screams doctor! doctor! at the end its the most honest thing i've ever heard

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by bamvolstone

21y ago

I adore this single.

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by george_305

21y ago

these 2 songs are great. i'd almost take them over '10 songs'. almost.

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by kibe

21y ago

amazing. the end of the song is perfect

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by i convey messages

20y ago

i like the whole "i can survive but i dont know if i want to." its just great.

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by Possibilities

20y ago

This song is beautiful. looking at these lyrics, it doesn't seem like much.. until you add the emotion, and deafening guitar.

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by kibe

20y ago

the doctor screaming part is so fucking sincere. one of the most heartfelt things that i have ever heard.

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by Greeny341

20y ago

i think its about a man who's tried to kill himself and now he's in the middle of an operation and he isnt sure whether he wants to be saved. he has a problem that cant be cured by a doctor, hes talking about being suicidal.

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by Toe Rag

20y ago

You guys read waaaay too much into this stuff. I Hate Myself was a joke band and these songs are hilarious.

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