Bad Religion – Infected

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  General Comment:I personally think that this song can be interpreted as a song about 'abuse' and an unhealthy relationship. It also sounds that it could be saying that having a relationship with God is unhealthy too.
  
  For me, the specific lyric 'I'm afflicted, you're addicted' ties in with my Bipolar disorder which shows i am not in a healthy state of mind but it leaves people wanting to know more about my weird ways.

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  General Comment:I personally think that this song can be interpreted as a song about 'abuse' and an unhealthy relationship. It also sounds that it could be saying that having a relationship with God is unhealthy too.
  
  For me, the specific lyric 'I'm afflicted, you're addicted' ties in with my Bipolar disorder which shows i am not in a healthy state of mind but it leaves people wanting to know more about my weird ways.

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  General Comment:Well This Might Sound Stupid But When He Says I'm Infected I Always Think That He Is Talking About AIDS. I Think That Is What The Song Is About That He Told Her That He Has Aids But She Still Wants To Be With him And That He Might Give Her Aids Think About It.

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  General Comment:Well This Might Sound Stupid But When He Says I'm Infected I Always Think That He Is Talking About AIDS. I Think That Is What The Song Is About That He Told Her That He Has Aids But She Still Wants To Be With him And That He Might Give Her Aids Think About It.

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    I was thinking that too

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  General Comment:genital herpes!...its a serious issue

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  General Comment:I'm going through this currently.
  
  It's simply is saying that you can hate and love someone at the same time. It's about someone trying to escape a toxic but very powerful relationship and giving into it.
  
  Yeah that's me. I've tried to run and he just keeps yanking me back. I tried going to another and paid for it. Something has to give.
  
  Props to BR for doing this on Sunday while they played right in front of me.

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  General Comment:No offense but the non-relationship ideas sound off, the "you" and the singer of this song sound too... er, close. And not in an ambiguous way. Very well executed song about a love/hate problematic/abusive relationship.

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  General Comment:to me its about interactions say someone as me(athiest and agnostic) with a person fixated on faith and light
  of God lurching over them; When they Get to be scared when they start to think outside thier box in the darkness
  they look up to the light of god for salvation and bliss.
  
  and what they dont understand is religion or any brute faith in a higher power IS a
  disease:
  
  disease: A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms.
  A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
  Obsolete. Lack of ease; trouble.
  
  
  
  
  and this disease only comes from human evolution. the more conscious we have become, we are more conscious of thre crushing weight of the unknown. it puts fear in us. And what we do is take the easy way out and look to a higher power for salvation because facing the truth is unbearable for weak people I really thin.
  
  and when they take it a step further and try to rub off this bliss(ignorance) on me I strike them down, because they do affect me, and infect me. and just because they find salvaton through turning away from truth in their mind and believing in some object, being, or idea; they cant believe Im not indulging as well. so they in a way say " just come over here, see what your missing!' and I say go fuck yourself.
  
  thats the interpretation when it comes to religion for this song, which many believe is the deeper meaning, and the way it is for me.

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  General Comment:I think this song is about a very common kind of relationship that so many of us have been in...toxic. Where (very often sexually) you're addicted to one another but it's one fight after another, domestic violence (I won't say abuse because very often she's fighting back and causing as much damage or antagonizing it) and you're just downright bad for one another.
  
  It's one of those relationships that when you constantly hear about the problems, after a while you just roll your eyes and hope that one day both can go their own seperate ways and be done with it.

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  General Comment:i think ur wrong about the disease hes fallen in love with someone he utterly hates and wants to kill but can because he's so addicted to the sex

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