The title stands for "If you don't kill me I'm gonna have to kill you". The idea being that if the addiction doesn't kill the person, they're going to have to kill the addiction.
The "it referred to is the addiction. "It's been doing some thinking. . ." "whether it was born or bred, genetic, environment" i.e. was the person born with a personality to be addicted to alcohol of drugs or was it acquired through the environment?
"So longs to hear her final words, I brought this on myself". Addiction leads to death- a favourite Type O theme.
Then quite possibly my favourite lyric ever "The theory of futility, now you learn, so be prepared- Enemies are equal to wrath times the speed of fright squared". It's a parody of Einstein's theory of relativity- Energies are equal to mass times the speed of light squared- (E=mc^2). You can't run away from an enemy that is a part of you- it's effectively a universal constant.
Department of Probation, legally it can't be blamed- you can't lock up addiction- it's just madness.
The "Gimme that" is what the addiction makes people say. The outro "no place to hide, your choice not mine" is what confronts every addict.
I think the track's very cool. While addiction from the drug's point of view has been done before (Master of Puppets), not many people have Pete's turn of phrase, or cynical humour.
It's about addiction.
The title stands for "If you don't kill me I'm gonna have to kill you". The idea being that if the addiction doesn't kill the person, they're going to have to kill the addiction.
The "it referred to is the addiction. "It's been doing some thinking. . ." "whether it was born or bred, genetic, environment" i.e. was the person born with a personality to be addicted to alcohol of drugs or was it acquired through the environment?
"So longs to hear her final words, I brought this on myself". Addiction leads to death- a favourite Type O theme.
Then quite possibly my favourite lyric ever "The theory of futility, now you learn, so be prepared- Enemies are equal to wrath times the speed of fright squared". It's a parody of Einstein's theory of relativity- Energies are equal to mass times the speed of light squared- (E=mc^2). You can't run away from an enemy that is a part of you- it's effectively a universal constant.
Department of Probation, legally it can't be blamed- you can't lock up addiction- it's just madness.
The "Gimme that" is what the addiction makes people say. The outro "no place to hide, your choice not mine" is what confronts every addict.
I think the track's very cool. While addiction from the drug's point of view has been done before (Master of Puppets), not many people have Pete's turn of phrase, or cynical humour.