I not sure what this song really is about. Suicide? It says it in the title but it doesn't make sense. He's clearly in love with someone, not a very good reason to kill yourself. Maybe she left him. Are there even good reasons to commit suicide?
Some fatal illness? That would seem more like it. He lies in bed, "looking for answers" unable to stop thinking and the second part of the title's medicine that could be considered a clue.
But what if it's none of that? What if the words in the title actually are symbols. Symbolism so to speak. Not to be taken litterally. Not that my interpretation would be any less cliché than the others but i see it like that:
"a brain that never stops ticking" thinking unable to stop.
"sometimes an on-off switch would sure come in handy" but it doesn't have one.
"a mind that's constantly cutting up and dissecting
looking for answers committing murders along the way"
I guess we all know how that feels, maybe lying awake at night when what happened during the day still haunts us and won't let us find sleep or peace.
"if this medication upsets your stomach
take it with crackers bread or a small meal
we understand it won't do shit towards the cure
but if you buy this I promise you're gonna like the way it makes you feel"
What kind of medicine doesn't do shit towards the cure but would make us like the way it makes us feel?
What cure? To stop thinking, to stop cutting up and dissecting everything that happens, to stop commiting murder along the way.
I can only guess how it feels to take drugs but from my experience with alcohol I think it's kind of the similar. Yeah I think this song is about drugs, it's medicine, it's suicide, it makes you worry less, think less. It's like a bomb you can't control you can cut any wire the red one or the blue it just doesn't matter anymore. But you know what? I think I am wrong. The only thing I am sure of is that in that moment when he "[leaves] his body behind to break the news" he realizes that he really, wholly and purely is in love with whoever this song is for.
@LessThanNeeded I used to think of it like that. Then I realized that "the red wire or the blue wire" lines are rocky deciding whether to cut a vein or an artery. It all falls in place from there. The news is that he committed suicide, which they only find out when they discover his body. Most suicides are totally out of the blue, at least to loved ones. My old boss was living happily with his brother in an appt when he came home find his body in the bathtub under bloody water. Their bodies really do break the...
@LessThanNeeded I used to think of it like that. Then I realized that "the red wire or the blue wire" lines are rocky deciding whether to cut a vein or an artery. It all falls in place from there. The news is that he committed suicide, which they only find out when they discover his body. Most suicides are totally out of the blue, at least to loved ones. My old boss was living happily with his brother in an appt when he came home find his body in the bathtub under bloody water. Their bodies really do break the news, which is followed with thoughts of what you never got to say to them, or they never said to you.
I not sure what this song really is about. Suicide? It says it in the title but it doesn't make sense. He's clearly in love with someone, not a very good reason to kill yourself. Maybe she left him. Are there even good reasons to commit suicide? Some fatal illness? That would seem more like it. He lies in bed, "looking for answers" unable to stop thinking and the second part of the title's medicine that could be considered a clue. But what if it's none of that? What if the words in the title actually are symbols. Symbolism so to speak. Not to be taken litterally. Not that my interpretation would be any less cliché than the others but i see it like that: "a brain that never stops ticking" thinking unable to stop. "sometimes an on-off switch would sure come in handy" but it doesn't have one. "a mind that's constantly cutting up and dissecting looking for answers committing murders along the way" I guess we all know how that feels, maybe lying awake at night when what happened during the day still haunts us and won't let us find sleep or peace. "if this medication upsets your stomach take it with crackers bread or a small meal we understand it won't do shit towards the cure but if you buy this I promise you're gonna like the way it makes you feel" What kind of medicine doesn't do shit towards the cure but would make us like the way it makes us feel? What cure? To stop thinking, to stop cutting up and dissecting everything that happens, to stop commiting murder along the way. I can only guess how it feels to take drugs but from my experience with alcohol I think it's kind of the similar. Yeah I think this song is about drugs, it's medicine, it's suicide, it makes you worry less, think less. It's like a bomb you can't control you can cut any wire the red one or the blue it just doesn't matter anymore. But you know what? I think I am wrong. The only thing I am sure of is that in that moment when he "[leaves] his body behind to break the news" he realizes that he really, wholly and purely is in love with whoever this song is for.
@LessThanNeeded I used to think of it like that. Then I realized that "the red wire or the blue wire" lines are rocky deciding whether to cut a vein or an artery. It all falls in place from there. The news is that he committed suicide, which they only find out when they discover his body. Most suicides are totally out of the blue, at least to loved ones. My old boss was living happily with his brother in an appt when he came home find his body in the bathtub under bloody water. Their bodies really do break the...
@LessThanNeeded I used to think of it like that. Then I realized that "the red wire or the blue wire" lines are rocky deciding whether to cut a vein or an artery. It all falls in place from there. The news is that he committed suicide, which they only find out when they discover his body. Most suicides are totally out of the blue, at least to loved ones. My old boss was living happily with his brother in an appt when he came home find his body in the bathtub under bloody water. Their bodies really do break the news, which is followed with thoughts of what you never got to say to them, or they never said to you.