i didn't understand this song back when i first heard it
but then i spent a week committed into a "behavioral center" (pretty much a mental hospital for minor cases)
where i was finally diagnosed as chronic depressive and slightly bi-polar
and then this song made perfect sense...
some lines more than others
i especially loved the part about the nurse with the lucky charms, and him having trouble focusing through the haze... sleepy? drugged? crying? who knows?
and the whole "walk into group for the show" part... basically heading into group therapy to be entertained by the problems of the fellow patients, looking back, it WAS quite a show at times...
the whole roommate part amused me, my first roommate did spend a lot of time sleeping, and only got up for meals
i find the angels part interesting, were they merely figments of his imagination, or was he referencing nurses or doctors or social workers? maybe images projected onto those trying to help him?
but yes, in order to get out of there, you really have to say and do what they want you to, whether you really feel that way ("changed") or not, which i did
though in a way, it did make me a better person, and now with medication and counseling, i have a much better hold on life
but i think that's one of the reasons i like blue october so much, i really have been through a similar sort of thing
all in all, an amazing song, with a lot of meaning :D
i didn't understand this song back when i first heard it
but then i spent a week committed into a "behavioral center" (pretty much a mental hospital for minor cases)
where i was finally diagnosed as chronic depressive and slightly bi-polar
and then this song made perfect sense...
some lines more than others
i especially loved the part about the nurse with the lucky charms, and him having trouble focusing through the haze... sleepy? drugged? crying? who knows?
and the whole "walk into group for the show" part... basically heading into group therapy to be entertained by the problems of the fellow patients, looking back, it WAS quite a show at times...
the whole roommate part amused me, my first roommate did spend a lot of time sleeping, and only got up for meals
i find the angels part interesting, were they merely figments of his imagination, or was he referencing nurses or doctors or social workers? maybe images projected onto those trying to help him?
but yes, in order to get out of there, you really have to say and do what they want you to, whether you really feel that way ("changed") or not, which i did
though in a way, it did make me a better person, and now with medication and counseling, i have a much better hold on life
but i think that's one of the reasons i like blue october so much, i really have been through a similar sort of thing
all in all, an amazing song, with a lot of meaning :D