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Erupt again ignore the pill
And I won't let it show
Sacrifice the tortures
Orchestral tear cash flow
Increase delete escape defeat
It's all that matters to you
Cotton case for an iron pill
Distorted eyes when everything is clearly dying
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and
Emotion sickness
Addict with no heroine
Emotion sickness
Distorted eyes when everything is clearly dying
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and pray
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and pray
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Won't you stop my pain
Emotion sickness
Addict with no heroine
Good things will pass (it helps with excess access)
Lessons learned
Emotion sickness
Lessons learned
And I won't let it show
Sacrifice the tortures
Orchestral tear cash flow
Increase delete escape defeat
It's all that matters to you
Cotton case for an iron pill
Distorted eyes when everything is clearly dying
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and
Emotion sickness
Addict with no heroine
Emotion sickness
Distorted eyes when everything is clearly dying
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and pray
Burn my knees and
Burn my knees and pray
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Get up!
Won't you stop my pain
Emotion sickness
Addict with no heroine
Good things will pass (it helps with excess access)
Lessons learned
Emotion sickness
Lessons learned
Lyrics submitted by spitfirek7
Track duration: 06:01
"Emotion Sickness" as written by Johns
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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- Since he's in the car, he's driving by himself. He’s in a route (so used for everybody) but he's stopped, there, without reaction. He can't do as everybody.
- It appears some police looking for something/somebody (maybe the boy?), I think it means the pills.
- The scene with the beach starts to appear at this point and I think it means his sorrows and sadness... It's already a sea.
The little boy is there (with something to support his legs, cause something happened before...so it supports him walk by himself), almost drowned. The boy is his "old him" trying to walk, but drowned.
- To get his "old part", before the worse happens, he get out from the car (so, from the normal route) and runs in some direction. He runs, jumps, pass by a lot of puddle of water (still sorrows)and discovered by himself his 'old he' (and not the police). I think it means that the medication could help, but it's him the responsible, who fought (ran) to find himself.
- After , he's at home with his old he. The bedroom is dry and it rains outside. Knees on the ground. Meaning that he don't suffer as before, but outside there's a lot of sorrows as well.
- VERY COOL scene. He's in a public place. His hands is being guided by the escalator, as a lot of people do. He's not the only one being "guided" = medicated.
His eyes are clear now, inside de bus. But voilà, just close to him there's another person having the same problems.
I think this video can't be interpreted literally by the lyrics, but be understood as a heavy (and necessary) complementary part of the history.
To me this is about denying you have a problem - not in the sense denying that you're an addict, but in the sense of denying that you SHOULD be seeking some kind of help or medication. Kinda like saying to yourself "I can't be depressed, because I'm not on antidepressants."
Just to clear that out, so I'm guessing he felt very hopeless and not to have anyone to emotionally rely on made him simply feel just like an "addict with no heroine" no one there to save him..
And I also believe the addiction is to antidepressants.
Truly haunting and emotionally touching songs.
I see way too much of myself in it.
Except i do have a heroine, if she was around all the time i wouldn't even need anti-d's.
There´s another phrase: "Distorted eyes, when everything is clearly dying" as in Ana´s Song´s "In my head the flesh seems thicker" which is one of the most significant symtpoms of anaorexia. So his mind is distorting his sight when clearly his entire body is dying. You can see in Ana´s Song´s video that he is watching a mirror and his hands look all covered in mud and dirty so he is cleaning them again, and again but they stay the same but in reality they are clean.
There´s another phrase: "Distorted eyes, when everything is clearly dying" as in Ana´s Song´s "In my head the flesh seems thicker" which is one of the most significant symtpoms of anaorexia. So his mind is distorting his sight when clearly his entire body is dying. You can see in Ana´s Song´s video that he is watching a mirror and his hands look all covered in mud and dirty so he is cleaning them again, and again but they stay the same but in reality they are clean.
To me it's about someone who is miserable and trapped, unable to connect with those around him. Surrounded by negative emotions. Too much! And the burn my knees part I never understood. Watching the video the parts about the boy, face dead on the beach with knee braces unable to get up really seemed to be a metaphor for the guy's childhood self. Who was somehow crippled emotionally which is shown by the knee braces. He is unable to get up. He keeps screaming to get up. Won't you stop my pain. He is trapped in misery, hopelessness "everything is clearly dying".
People around him he is convinced have "distorted eyes" and can't see how terrible and hopeless and cruel it all is. In the video he is sitting on the couch at a party and someone has put a glass over a moth to trap it. He is watching the moth and he looks around at people having a good time. He feels trapped because he is unable to connect socially. He thinks of a bird trapped trying to fly out and he is able to relate more easily to it then the moth but through it all he still relates to that moth trapped so he frees it in sympathy and feeling he understands being trapped. A woman is sad and looking at him. And its like he can feel her pain and it is too much. He drowns alone in his misery. But really he is just alone in the room on the bed. He stands alone at the window of his apartment and there is only rain falling over his window. Because inside his emotional cage it is raining and misery but outside it isn't.
At the end of the video he is on the train and his eyes seem vacant and like he is somewhere else and kind of numb. He is not in pain.. so much as before. He sees person in the seat near him and he looks sort of strange. And then you see that he is going through the same miserable thing but he is too lost in his own problems to see it.
"sacrifice the tortures" (the tortures of leaving everythng inside, thus having to orchestrate when he'll fall in tears, "Orchestral tear-cash flow"). Although I'm still unsure about the "cash" part of it.
Another point no one brought up-> "Won't you stop my pain" ? I've always thought and sang along to it as "Won't you starve my brain" cuz upon buying the tab book, that's the lyrics that were there. I've been trying to hear the "stop" and "pain" instead, but even on some live versions, it seems more obvious he's saying the starve/brain instead.
Orchestral tear cash-flow
I think these lines are talking about how he capatilizes off his pain through his music