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Placebo – Special K Lyrics 18 years ago
aje742, i must correct you, ketamine is used in humans (normally elderly people and children with burn trauma, who do not "get" the psychedelic/hallucingenic/dissocaitve effects of the drug) to avoid the use of opioids/opiates which are highly physchologically and physically addictive

Although, recently, i saw something that shocked me, my uncle needed brain surgery for internal bleeding, when he woke he kept trying to pull the tube that supplied him with oxygen from his chest, so they sedated his with ketamine, why in fuck the so called "consultants~" used a neurotoxic drug on someone only after brain trauma is benyond me

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Slipknot – Vermilion Lyrics 18 years ago
Also, I forgot to mention in my previous post, at the TMF awards in Belgium when Slipknot played vermillion, just before they start Corey says "Have you ever felt like you've been cheated?" this could possibly be the feelings of an addict who feels like the drugs have cheated him/her, and left him in a state where he/she cannot function without him.

Also, the name heroin is short an "e" of being heroine, a female hero, which is why I believe he refers to the drug as a female being throughout the song.

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Slipknot – Vermilion Lyrics 18 years ago
To me, this song represents the routine of an opioid addict, most likely heroin.

She seems dressed in all the rings...
{Heroin (and most other opioids) are a 3 ringed molecule}
Of past fatalities
{Opioids can cause death in overdose, heroin has been linked to many deaths worldwide}
so fragile, yet so devious
{heroin is the most fragile of the opioids, also, opioid addicition has repetetivly been called a trap (hence devious)}
She continues to see
climatic hands that press
Her temples {heroin is converted to morphine in the brain, "her temples" are the two acetyl groups which replace the hydroxide groups on the morphine molecule, essentially, when the body presses her "temples" it becomes morphine} and my chest {opioids cause respiratory depression (slow breathing)} enter the night
That she came home... forever {addict gets his/her fix, wants it to last forever}

Oh (She's the only one that makes me sad) {heroin withdrawl can cause rather nasty depression}

She is everything and more {many opioids users feel that their drug is "everything" to them, euphoria, removal of anxiety, depression etc..}
The solemn hypnotic {opioids can cause drowsiness/sleepiness}
My Dahlia, you're bathed in posession {many addicts steal to buy the drug}
She is home to me {the feelings of protection, safety, comfort etc, that can be caused by opioids can make addicts feel "at home"}

I get neverous, perverse when I see her its worse {again, withdrawl syndrome}
But the stress is astounding {more withdrawl syndrome}
It's now or never she's coming home
Forever {again, addict gets his/her fix}

Oh (She's the only one that makes me sad) {withdrawl syndrome}

Hard to say what caught my attention
Fixed and crazy--Aphid Attraction {unsure why he/her was drawn into the snares of opioids}
Carve my name in my face, to recognize
Such a pheromone cult to terrorize {the media has frequently made addicts feel like their part of a cult}

I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
{this could mean alot of things, tolerance? depression from withdrawl? etc..}
(Yeah!)

I'm a slave, and I am a master {slave to the drug, yet wants to feel in control}
No restraints and, unchecked collectors {refering to dealers as "unchecked collectors" the drugs are commonly adultered as there is no quality control}
I exist through my need, to self ablige {exists to take the drug}
She is something in me, that i despise {despises the drug, the addiction?}

I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
{again, possibly tolerance or depression?}
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me

SHE ISN'T REAL!
I CAN'T MAKE HER REAL!
SHE ISN'T REAL!
I CAN'T MAKE HER REAL!
{the effects of opioids [feelings of safety, protection, comfort, euphoria] are the effects of a drug, nothing real, no divine influnce}
(She isn't real, I can't make her real)
(She isn't real, I can't make her real)
{see above}

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