the general idea i got out of it is the feeling and the mundane everyday existance of living in an in patient treatment center... she starts with saying "they tell me i have to get out of bed
they tell me i have to keep up my strength
i've got to eat something" <----- They make rounds to make sure people are awake and moving, and the second and third line make me think the recovery placement is for drug addiction, or even for anorexia.
"but there is no soothing
for the boiling of my skin
there is no comfort here
so what if I'm standing here?
i still hurt from my hair to my feet" <----- speaks to the pain she in, addicts when they are withdrawing are very weak, especially if its heroin, they don't / can't eat food. The feeling of withdrawing from heroin is described as wanting to pull off all ur skin often
"i know this is nothing now
but once it was everything" <------ refers to the addiction being everything
"they tell me i have to get up and dressed
they tell me i have to start getting out
i've got to keep busy
maybe exhertion will do me in" <----- the repetition of routine they drill into ur life when in recovery and in treatment centers
the general idea i got out of it is the feeling and the mundane everyday existance of living in an in patient treatment center... she starts with saying "they tell me i have to get out of bed they tell me i have to keep up my strength i've got to eat something" <----- They make rounds to make sure people are awake and moving, and the second and third line make me think the recovery placement is for drug addiction, or even for anorexia.
"but there is no soothing for the boiling of my skin there is no comfort here
so what if I'm standing here? i still hurt from my hair to my feet" <----- speaks to the pain she in, addicts when they are withdrawing are very weak, especially if its heroin, they don't / can't eat food. The feeling of withdrawing from heroin is described as wanting to pull off all ur skin often
"i know this is nothing now but once it was everything" <------ refers to the addiction being everything
"they tell me i have to get up and dressed they tell me i have to start getting out i've got to keep busy maybe exhertion will do me in" <----- the repetition of routine they drill into ur life when in recovery and in treatment centers