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Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate
What creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishment
And you're the master
And I am waiting for disaster
[Chorus]
I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am
Getting away with murder
It isn't possible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is I'm getting away with murder
I drink my drink and I don't even want to
I think my thoughts when I don't even need to
I never look back 'cause I don't even want to
And I don't need to
Because I'm getting away with murder
[Chorus]
Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate
What creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishment
And you're the master
And I am craving this disaster
[Chorus: x2]
I need to calculate
What creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishment
And you're the master
And I am waiting for disaster
[Chorus]
I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am
Getting away with murder
It isn't possible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is I'm getting away with murder
I drink my drink and I don't even want to
I think my thoughts when I don't even need to
I never look back 'cause I don't even want to
And I don't need to
Because I'm getting away with murder
[Chorus]
Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate
What creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishment
And you're the master
And I am craving this disaster
[Chorus: x2]
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Track duration: 03:11
"Getting Away With Murder [Live]" as written by Jerry Horton Tobin Esperance
Lyrics © DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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A person in related to the 'system' or goverment possibly suffering from the system (Who wouldn't go insane because of them?). He doesn't need to think because the goverment always thinks for America , making final desicion. We're punished by the system when we do wrong, and the upper hands of the political world are our actual masters (As much as we say f*ck them). Waiting for whatever disaster (Natural disaster? Crime? Terrorism I dunno..) I'm guessing the guy is so upset with the goverment and is mad. He's going to do some terrible things for his own benifit or revenge possibly and get away with it this time (I'm guessing he does criminal acts often enough that he's addicted to the punishment). I'm probably completely wrong. Just a guy struggling within himself and the world around him, putting all his hate to whatever has control over him and his home.
Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate what creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishment
And you’re the master and I am waiting for disaster
I feel irrational, so confrontational
To tell the truth again, I'm getting away with murder
It isn’t possible to never tell the truth
But the reality is I'm getting away with murder
Getting Away, Getting Away, Getting Away
I take my drink and I don’t even want to
I think my thoughts when I don’t even need to
I never look back 'cause I don’t even want to
And I don’t need to because I'm getting away with murder
I feel irrational, so confrontational
To tell the truth again, I'm getting away with murder
It isn’t possible to never tell the truth
But the reality is I'm getting away with murder
Getting Away, Getting Away, Getting Away, Getting Away
Getting Away, Getting Away, Getting Away, Getting Away
Getting Away with murder
Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate what creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishment
And you’re the master and I am craving this disaster
I feel irrational, so confrontational
To tell the truth again, I'm getting away with murder
It isn’t possible to never tell the truth
But the reality is I'm getting away with murder
Getting Away, Getting Away, Getting Away
I feel irrational, so confrontational
To tell the truth again, I'm getting away with murder
It isn’t possible to never tell the truth
But the reality is I'm getting away with murder
It's almost that he's manipulating someone into thinking that they're in control, making them think that they're his 'master' when they aren't, and he's leading them to their death, or at the very least an extremely unpleasant fate.
The first verse 'I need to calculate what creates my own madness, and I'm addicted to your punishment' would make it seem that he is only the submissive, the 'used' in this relationship. But other parts of the song contradicts that.
'It isn’t possible to never tell the truth, But the reality is I'm getting away with murder'
He's lying up and down, luring the person into a trap with his lies.
This was an interesting verse to me.
'I take my drink and I don’t even want to
I think my thoughts when I don’t even need to
I never look back cos I don’t even want to
And I don’t need to because I'm getting away with murder'
He's doing all these things, he doesn't want to do them, but he's doing it to continue the illusion that he isn't the one in control. I have been in a relationship somewhat like this, manipulating the person into thinking they're in control, when they aren't. The person I was back in those days would be proud to know someone else knew how she felt.
Fascinating song.