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O my sweet nurse
Pull the curtain aside for a while
So that I can for once have
The sun in my eye
You smile and say
It's a fine day
O my sweet nurse
Pull the curtain aside for a while
Then like a ghost at night
You come around all dressed in white
Talking to me
And so I have to drink
The water with your poison spilled
For no more will
O my sweet nurse
Seems you have so little time
That you rather put
Me to sleep than sit by my side
Pull the curtain aside for a while
So that I can for once have
The sun in my eye
You smile and say
It's a fine day
O my sweet nurse
Pull the curtain aside for a while
Then like a ghost at night
You come around all dressed in white
Talking to me
And so I have to drink
The water with your poison spilled
For no more will
O my sweet nurse
Seems you have so little time
That you rather put
Me to sleep than sit by my side
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Anyway, I think the song is about someone important in the narrator's life, who seems to be much more interested in "Fixing" him, rather than "Helping" him. The nurse obviously a metaphor for some sort of caretaker or confidant. She (or he) brushes off his request to open the curtains with a comment on what a fine day it is, and then later on, she (or he) seems much more interested in 'putting him to sleep' than listening to what's really bothering him. He's forced to drink their "poisoned water" so on and so forth.
So yeah, someone who thinks they know what's best for you, but end up keeping you sick. That's what I believe the song is in reference to.
It's about euthanasia. My father told me about a nurse who killed about 50 patients and I though "yes, thats it!" It's quite obvious..the poison he drank for "no more will" and
"seems you have so little time
that you rather put
me to sleep than sit by my side "
putting to sleep(like animals)->killing
"o my sweet nurse
seems you have so little time
that you rather put
me to sleep than sit by my side "
I got the job! I even told the interviewers that these were lyrics from a song by my favorite metal band. Funny to look back on this.
Mind the language.