You Don't Care About Us Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Mistress_Cheese 

Cover art for You Don't Care About Us lyrics by Placebo

Call me crazy, but the first time I heard the first verse it reminded me a lot of a suicide attempt - this is probably only because I relate the words to what happened to me.

"If it's a bad day, you try to suffocate. Another memory... scarred." - You have a bad day, so you try to end it all (suffocate), but it doesn't work, so you're left with "another memory scarred."

"If it's a bad case, then you accelerate, you're in the getaway... car" - nothing's working, so you try to "accelerate" the natural process of death. The getaway car could be suicide, eg. a means of getting away.

Some things fit with this idea, eg. "you don't care about us" and "mental masturbation" - all you care about is yourself and your happiness, you want to die, but then you're not only ending your life but our relationship as well. And "You're at the wrong place, you're on the back page, you're in the getaway... car." - the wrong place and back page referring to death and that it's not time to die. Again, the getaway car.

"You're too complicated, we should separate it." is self explanatory. But this is only my take, and I'm sure it's wrong as many things don't fit - eg. I have no idea what "It's a matter of trust." and "It's your age, It's my rage." could mean.