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Picture yourself
Sleeping on a plane
There's something ticking in the overhead
And inside your brains
There's bodies in the water
And bodies in the basement
If heaven's for clean people, it's vacant
And hey are you know?
And hey are you being careful?
And hey are you luke-warm?
Hey ya you are
I'm frantic
So load me up
Whatever puts me all the way out
Picture yourself swimming in an ocean
A million miles from nowhere and the nearest phone
There's bodies in the water
Floating all around you
And all of them are talking, and they're comedians
And hey are you you know?
And hey are you special?
And hey are you deformed?
Hey ya you are
I'm frantic
So load me up
It seems so practiced
Me fucking this up
Whatever puts me all the way out
Picture yourself at the MGM Grand
Murphy's fighting hok'em
You're in the stands
There's somebody in the water
In the middle of the ocean
A million miles from nowhere
And they're alone
I'm there alone
So, so deformed
I'm frantic
So load me up
This seems so practiced
So take me all the way out
Whatever puts me all the way out
Sleeping on a plane
There's something ticking in the overhead
And inside your brains
There's bodies in the water
And bodies in the basement
If heaven's for clean people, it's vacant
And hey are you know?
And hey are you being careful?
And hey are you luke-warm?
Hey ya you are
I'm frantic
So load me up
Whatever puts me all the way out
Picture yourself swimming in an ocean
A million miles from nowhere and the nearest phone
There's bodies in the water
Floating all around you
And all of them are talking, and they're comedians
And hey are you you know?
And hey are you special?
And hey are you deformed?
Hey ya you are
I'm frantic
So load me up
It seems so practiced
Me fucking this up
Whatever puts me all the way out
Picture yourself at the MGM Grand
Murphy's fighting hok'em
You're in the stands
There's somebody in the water
In the middle of the ocean
A million miles from nowhere
And they're alone
I'm there alone
So, so deformed
I'm frantic
So load me up
This seems so practiced
So take me all the way out
Whatever puts me all the way out
Lyrics submitted by Little Butcher Boy
Track duration: 03:40
"Load Me Up" as written by Matthew Good, Rich Priske, Ian Browne, Dave Genn
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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He kinda lays it out in the first few lines:
"Picture yourself
sleeping on a plane
there's something ticking in the overhead
and inside your brains"
He's referring, it seems, to paranoia of danger and things going wrong and how it's built up inside our own heads, especially for those of us with anxiety disorders.
Again, as someone pointed out, he mentions a battle of "Murphey vs. Occam" [which is misspelled in these lyrics. It's spelled either Occam or Ockham]. This is certainly referring to Murphey's Laws, the most famous of which being "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" (paraphrased) and Occam's Razor which states that when all options are equal the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one.
If you think about it, or if you know anyone with an anxiety disorder, this is the battle that's raging inside their heads all the time. These people are constantly worrying that everything will go wrong and have to calm their thoughts with the logic of what is most likely to actually happen.
I agree "load me up" might refer to drugs. Another idea I have is that it may refer to one's surroundings (like the media) constantly feeding the paranoia.
do you ever remember your dreams? cuz i do sometimes, and sometimes, the developments that are made are SO random...like, i'll be driving along a highway to some place, and on the way, we have to get by some giant ostrich who wants to eat everybody, and then suddenly i'm zapped into disneyland sorta thing...? the verses seem like that to me...where the beginning starts off simple, and then there's a sudden, random twist...
V1: ah yes...i'm sleeping on a plane...makes sense, cuz flights are normally long, and i'm bored...but wait, what's that ticking sound? what the...why am i suddenly in water where there are bodies? and i somehow know that there are bodies in a basement...what basement??
V2: la la la...i'm in the ocean, that's nice...ooo look there are ppl floating around me, and they're really funny........i see O_o
V3: oooo two guys dukin' it out...but my supersenses are telling me that there's a guy in the middle of the ocean...wait a sec, it's matt good! hey, that's messed up........
i dunno...that's just sorta what i saw...
Good song