I Own You Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Cloudwing 

Cover art for I Own You lyrics by Shinedown

I know this is an older song, but I personally think, while unlikely, that this could be based around a basis of hypnosis, or rather the miss use of it. Around this time, many court cases of hypnosis being used as a tool for rape were popping up. The first couple of lines, "Come on in, take a seat. Tell me how you feel this week. Are you cursed? Are you blessed? Are you still inside the mess? All those feelings wrapped around you, Hold you down so you can't break through," could be in the sense of someone performing hypnotherapy.

What really makes me think this are two particular lines in general. Those lines are "Are you cursed? Are you blessed?" For those of you who aren't strangers to erotic hypnosis know where I'm going (no, nothing is going to be explicit). For those of you who are completely out of the loop, there are certain files labeled as "Curse" files, and on occasion, people also call the "Blessing" files. This could be a hint towards a hypnotherapist taking sexual advantage, or meaning to later on.

To further the evidence, the line "It don't burn; it don't bleed," is another way of using hypnosis in a therapeutic way. Hypnosis can be used to lessen pain and heal injuries faster.

My last bit to add is the lines, "Hey, ce la vie. Remember me? I made you, dressed, and trained you." "Ce la vie" is French for "This life," which in of itself isn't too suspicious, nor enough to properly come to a conclusion. But if you add in, "I made you, dressed, and trained you," you've cast, sink, and bait (is that right?). These are generally messages used in erotic hypnosis files to show the hypnotist's dominance over the hypnotee, as a form of objectification (usually it's enjoyable for a willing subject). Not to mention that there are also slave hypnosis files, some are frankly labeled as "training" files.

Of course, it's all a simple theory of perverted hypnotherapists taking advantage of their patient (though I do have some pretty solid evidence, including dates when these were becoming popular cases: around the time the song was released), as that's apparently a thing many people believe to be possible. Hypnosis isn't an assertion of one's will unto another, as it needs both parties to be consensual throughout the entire process, regardless of how good the hypnotist is at his/her art.

@Cloudwing I just remembered that "ce la vie" could also be spelled "c'est la vie," meaning it's something else. It makes more sense if it's "c'est la vie" anyways. The second translation means "It's life," which makes a hell of a lot more sense when you think about it.