They are singing about drugs, but not the kind I think most of you are thinking about. This is all speculation but I believe they are singing about how our society is becoming more medicated. Every day some new drug comes on the market to help us put off every day hostilities that just fifty years ago would have been considered life.
For example there is evidence that ADD is over-diagnosed and that some of these children just need a good spanking, but instead we prescribe ridilin. But that's just the beginning later on in life we have even more really good drugs to help get through young adulthood on through midlife crises, the latest trend in the eighties was valium now its prozac or zoloft. The numb arm of the elderly describes a lifetime of such treatment where the hottest thing is probably vicadin for the physical pain of growing older. And let's not forget the prescription drug of choice for major abuse, VIAGRA!!
Just speculation but from this perspective is the only way I can make sense of "takes the weight out of living". Hypodermic people refers to someone who chose the life of medication and the living is someone who has not. Once the concept has been grasped I think the rest of the lyrics fall into place.
They are singing about drugs, but not the kind I think most of you are thinking about. This is all speculation but I believe they are singing about how our society is becoming more medicated. Every day some new drug comes on the market to help us put off every day hostilities that just fifty years ago would have been considered life.
For example there is evidence that ADD is over-diagnosed and that some of these children just need a good spanking, but instead we prescribe ridilin. But that's just the beginning later on in life we have even more really good drugs to help get through young adulthood on through midlife crises, the latest trend in the eighties was valium now its prozac or zoloft. The numb arm of the elderly describes a lifetime of such treatment where the hottest thing is probably vicadin for the physical pain of growing older. And let's not forget the prescription drug of choice for major abuse, VIAGRA!! Just speculation but from this perspective is the only way I can make sense of "takes the weight out of living". Hypodermic people refers to someone who chose the life of medication and the living is someone who has not. Once the concept has been grasped I think the rest of the lyrics fall into place.