Lyric discussion by Roses4Breakfast 

Cover art for Medicate lyrics by Breaking Benjamin

Obviously its about self-medicating. Its an Anthem for anyone whose drug of choice is sex.

"Ive got something up my sleeve" Like a magic trick how you can just make someone fall for you so easily. / Or you’re hiding something.

"I know you will cover me" Like a cover-up for your own ‘problems’. Being with someone keeps everyone from realizing how apathetic you actually are. You don’t really care about them, youre just using them.

"Inside out and inbetween" Twisting everything to your own advantage. Maybe this person may actually love you. They want to fix you and take care of all your problems. But you prey on their empathy, and use it against them. Like how when you open up to someone, it just actually makes them more vulnerable… Being with them makes you seem more ‘normal.’ But you don’t feel anything for them "I know you will cover me" (“Comfort” or “Cover”<- kinda interchangeable, it sounds like they use both throughout the song) "I know you will comfort me" …"Get laid." For them its love, for you its just fucking. "So get laid. WE get laid " Makes the tone of this whole tone of this song seem kinda prideful. -Youre not going to feel bad about what youre doing or anyone you may hurt. And at the same times it’s comforting to know youre not the only one who does this, so its okay. OR it could just be a guy thing to just throw “We get laid” into a song. Haha idk, but it’s def makes it a little more badass

"Ive been lying here for weeks" Youre depressed, or whatever your own disorder is… you need to medicate to feel better/ to feel alive. Youre medicating to cover it up. — "I know you will cover me"

"Run away, Make Hate Get laid, We get Laid Tie me up, Ive had enough Medicate"

Maybe you just don’t feel loved. Youre reaching out for that attention, you get laid to feel close to someone. But once you do get what you were looking for, you throw it away, because youre just medicating and you don’t want to feel. You don’t want to feel vulnerable, it scares you, so you run away. Youre running away from everything, from your problems and from love (which might be the cure to all your problems). So its like a cycle Plus by using people you could be hurting them. Throwing them into a similar cycle. So the whole chorus works in the command form too. Telling everyone to just run away form your problems, and get laid. If that hurts other people, whatever — "Make hate."

My Interpretation