For me this song is about recovery. I've been in and out of NA for 12 years and just now am I really starting to get the program, to work the 12 steps and turn my around. For about 15 years I was locked in addiction and never really learned to process my emotions. And now in recovery, I've gone from feeling completely spiritually dead to truly feeling alive. The dope took my soul and recovery is giving it back, as well as my life back. I OD'd and nearly died in 1997, been locked up in institutions and now am free from the incredible horrors of the disease of addiction, which has not one ounce of compassion for human life. This song brings me to tears. This song to me is about acceptance but acceptance gained through the twelve steps. Only those who have felt the bitter pain of addiction:the self-loathing, the shame, the guilt, the misery, the feelings of worthlessness, the sheer pain that comes from completely hating yourself, spending your whole life, believing your not as good as everybody else, to truly stop caring about life and just not caring about anything can really understand what it's life to truly come alive again, to deal with your past and come into acceptance about who you are as a person and begin to change your entire life can really understand how incredible the feeling is. It is such an amazing feeling, that's why he says "Somebody shake me cause I must be sleeping"-It's like he's saying I can't believe how incredible my life has become, that's what it means to me anyways...
For me this song is about recovery. I've been in and out of NA for 12 years and just now am I really starting to get the program, to work the 12 steps and turn my around. For about 15 years I was locked in addiction and never really learned to process my emotions. And now in recovery, I've gone from feeling completely spiritually dead to truly feeling alive. The dope took my soul and recovery is giving it back, as well as my life back. I OD'd and nearly died in 1997, been locked up in institutions and now am free from the incredible horrors of the disease of addiction, which has not one ounce of compassion for human life. This song brings me to tears. This song to me is about acceptance but acceptance gained through the twelve steps. Only those who have felt the bitter pain of addiction:the self-loathing, the shame, the guilt, the misery, the feelings of worthlessness, the sheer pain that comes from completely hating yourself, spending your whole life, believing your not as good as everybody else, to truly stop caring about life and just not caring about anything can really understand what it's life to truly come alive again, to deal with your past and come into acceptance about who you are as a person and begin to change your entire life can really understand how incredible the feeling is. It is such an amazing feeling, that's why he says "Somebody shake me cause I must be sleeping"-It's like he's saying I can't believe how incredible my life has become, that's what it means to me anyways...
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