I'm in a crisis....
I'm in a crisis, I need help
Come on mood shift, shift back to good again
Come on mood shift, shift back to good again
Come on be a friend
Nina Twin is trying to help, and I
Really hope that she succeeds
Though I picked the thorny path myself
I'm afraid, afraid of where it leads
Chemicals, don't strangle my pen
Chemicals don't make me sick again
I'm always so dubious of your intent
Like I can't afford to replace what you've spent
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Nina Twin is trying to help, and I
Really hope she gets me straight
'Cause my own inner cosmology
Has become too dense to navigate
I'm in a crisis, I need help
Come on mood shift, shift back to good again
Come on mood shift, shift back to good again
Come on be a friend
Come on be a friend
Two, three, four
Chemicals, don't flatten my mind
Chemicals, don't mess me up this time
Know you bait me way more than you should
And it's just like you to hurt me when I'm feeling good
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
Come on chemicals
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Both him and Nina (his wife) are Geminis. I think this has a lot to do with the song..
Nina calls herself Nina Twin. Twin isn't actually her last name. The twins are the sign of that zodiac.
Geminis are known for having erratic mood swings.
plus he talks about his inner cosmology..
I feel like it's about medication. Basically, if you are bipolar you will take two kinds of medication, usually lithium and anti-depressants. They will bring you to a normal mood level but the bad thing is that they sorta kill your creativity.
Thus the strangling of pens and such.
I think that's a struggle for anyone on meds. They make you feel better but at the same time they make you feel worse. Perhaps he's been on medication before, stopped and then is trying them again (perhaps for the nth time) hoping that this time it'll actually work for him.
I'm starting to get irked that people don't read the comments before they post, or only one page. (I know there are sometimes a lot of pages, but you just gotta suck it up) The third page is like nothing but comments already said or uninformed comments. Oh well.
Obviously if you're reading this though, you've done that. Good job! Haha.
Even when he is in a good mood he has to keep using the drugs and he feels like they are making him into something he's not, or dumbing him down, making him dull... one of those, or maybe all of them.
Analysis aside, love this song for the lyrics and the melody, however unconventional it is. Probably my favorite by of Montreal.
FRIZZELLE: Serotonin?
BARNES: Yeah. I went through this chemical depression, and that's when I was writing a lot of the songs for Hissing Fauna. They're all songs about that experience. And I was experiencing it in the moment that I was writing the songs, and sort of asking myself: What the hell is going on? Why are you all of a sudden totally paranoid and plagued by these anxieties? And why is everything so distorted and confusing and fucked up? My lifestyle hadn't changed that much. And then I realized, well, there's something going on inside of me that I don't have control over, and then you realize how vulnerable you are to these things, these elements that you can't understand, or unless you go on medication and get it under control. It's like you're being betrayed by your body.