As someone with schizophrenia, this rather reminds me of my struggles with the illness. 'Blue Pastures' oddly sounds like the name of a mental hospital or rest home. In the first verse, he's been discharged, but starts to decompensate again. "Just when I thought I was free, I got pulled in again/Once you're in, you're in" sounds like the episodic nature of the illness.
The second verse sounds like he's having another episode ("blue pastures calling home..."), and is considering suicide, because he shouldn't have to keep suffering just because his loved ones don't want to be without him ("I don't see why I'm obliged to just carry on"). He eventually accepts that this is how things are, and in the final verse, perhaps has taken his medication in the hospital and drifts off to sleep.
@SkipWhite thank you! Like to read this. I love the song but for me it is the voices in the head he try to walk away from and also the paranoid thoughts.
@SkipWhite thank you! Like to read this. I love the song but for me it is the voices in the head he try to walk away from and also the paranoid thoughts.
I think from my own paranoid thoughts that we are in classrooms and he can not come from it. As soon the voices stops he think he is free but when you are in or seen you can not avoid it.
I think from my own paranoid thoughts that we are in classrooms and he can not come from it. As soon the voices stops he think he is free but when you are in or seen you can not avoid it.
In the end he simply want to kill him self. I like it it make me sleep.
In the end he simply want to kill him self. I like it it make me sleep.
As someone with schizophrenia, this rather reminds me of my struggles with the illness. 'Blue Pastures' oddly sounds like the name of a mental hospital or rest home. In the first verse, he's been discharged, but starts to decompensate again. "Just when I thought I was free, I got pulled in again/Once you're in, you're in" sounds like the episodic nature of the illness.
The second verse sounds like he's having another episode ("blue pastures calling home..."), and is considering suicide, because he shouldn't have to keep suffering just because his loved ones don't want to be without him ("I don't see why I'm obliged to just carry on"). He eventually accepts that this is how things are, and in the final verse, perhaps has taken his medication in the hospital and drifts off to sleep.
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@SkipWhite thank you! Like to read this. I love the song but for me it is the voices in the head he try to walk away from and also the paranoid thoughts.
@SkipWhite thank you! Like to read this. I love the song but for me it is the voices in the head he try to walk away from and also the paranoid thoughts.
I think from my own paranoid thoughts that we are in classrooms and he can not come from it. As soon the voices stops he think he is free but when you are in or seen you can not avoid it.
I think from my own paranoid thoughts that we are in classrooms and he can not come from it. As soon the voices stops he think he is free but when you are in or seen you can not avoid it.
In the end he simply want to kill him self. I like it it make me sleep.
In the end he simply want to kill him self. I like it it make me sleep.