Alright, the line with the question mark should read: "Life is so strange, so is God with games"*
Next, russtrick has the debit card over the eyes reference dead on.
However, I'm rather confident the message about laying on the air bed at Sean Martin's is NOT about waking up after a ketamine dose. And ketamine is definitely not his drug of choice. That's the shit they forced on him when he was in a psych ward that illegally drugged him and restrained him in isolation for up to 13 hours at a time. He's given up most drugs, which is what this album is largely about. He has said in a number of interviews now that Movies for the Blind was a drug-induced album, Hell's Winter is the album that set the target for what he wants to become, and this album was about the internal conflicts that stop him from getting there. If you've ever suffered from depression (as he did once he was taken off the SSRI's that were forced on him), this song makes perfect sense immediately. This song is about the depression that is keeping him from connecting with the world. When you're depressed, doing any normal task is like trying to do it with a 50 pound weighted-vest strapped to you. You don't want to get up. You don't want to deal with other people's bullshit. You don't want to deal with the world. Respectively speaking, those sentiments can be seen in the following: "Every morning I just lay in bed cause I don't want to wake up, pick my stupid face up, give my shit away, you'll take it from me anyway, even if I go away, I will never go away"; "you guys should start a band that's called The Four Girls That Lied To Me, you want me in looser jeans less assholes...she said she wouldn't judge me, then the gavel fell from her purse"; "life is so strange, so is God with games, the one wrapped tightly around me like a dog with mange, kick me in the stomach, I shit myself in the damn street, left for dead, want to be knocked out like that but can't sleep."
This song, in a nutshell, is about how he is off the drugs and out of the psych ward, but the feelings of depression that the psych ward produced in him still remain, and he's trying to deal with that while trying to better himself, both for his own sake and his daughter's.
Alright, the line with the question mark should read: "Life is so strange, so is God with games"*
Next, russtrick has the debit card over the eyes reference dead on.
However, I'm rather confident the message about laying on the air bed at Sean Martin's is NOT about waking up after a ketamine dose. And ketamine is definitely not his drug of choice. That's the shit they forced on him when he was in a psych ward that illegally drugged him and restrained him in isolation for up to 13 hours at a time. He's given up most drugs, which is what this album is largely about. He has said in a number of interviews now that Movies for the Blind was a drug-induced album, Hell's Winter is the album that set the target for what he wants to become, and this album was about the internal conflicts that stop him from getting there. If you've ever suffered from depression (as he did once he was taken off the SSRI's that were forced on him), this song makes perfect sense immediately. This song is about the depression that is keeping him from connecting with the world. When you're depressed, doing any normal task is like trying to do it with a 50 pound weighted-vest strapped to you. You don't want to get up. You don't want to deal with other people's bullshit. You don't want to deal with the world. Respectively speaking, those sentiments can be seen in the following: "Every morning I just lay in bed cause I don't want to wake up, pick my stupid face up, give my shit away, you'll take it from me anyway, even if I go away, I will never go away"; "you guys should start a band that's called The Four Girls That Lied To Me, you want me in looser jeans less assholes...she said she wouldn't judge me, then the gavel fell from her purse"; "life is so strange, so is God with games, the one wrapped tightly around me like a dog with mange, kick me in the stomach, I shit myself in the damn street, left for dead, want to be knocked out like that but can't sleep."
This song, in a nutshell, is about how he is off the drugs and out of the psych ward, but the feelings of depression that the psych ward produced in him still remain, and he's trying to deal with that while trying to better himself, both for his own sake and his daughter's.