everyone's entitled to their opinion, but some rly make it more complicated than it is. reading things like 'the rug is a vagina', i mean, come on.
also, the nurse as a drug metaphor seems poetically invalid. this lyric doesnt seem to contain an extended metaphor. take the sentence "she's got everything; i need pharmacy keys". 'she' would mean 'drug'. ok, but then he sais she, the drug, has 'pharmacy keys', which cant rly be a metaphor for something i think. so basically, than would be saying 'the drug has pharmacy keys'. makes no sense.
i think its simple. the verses are the nurse talking, basically waking a patient up ("say hello to...") to start his day, uselessly spent by studying the carpet etc (rug's topography) due to the patient being kinda fucked up still, in rehab prolly. the apples on the ground he sneezed out, are the bad desires (adam and eve reference) he lost now that he's being treated. theyre not in his eyes anymore ie he doesnt chase it anylonger.
the choruses are the patient himself; his illusion the nurse rly loves him because she takes care of him, because hes fuckd in the head still. thats why the music is dreamy, and somewhat childish, walt disney like. cause he's on the level of a child again due to the drugs fuckin him up, full of imagination.
@Lupi You're definitely overthinking this too. "apple of my eye" is an expression. It means something you cherish. The part about apples is obviously a play on words. I have no idea how you got an Adam and Eve reference out of that, or that the apples are somehow bad desires.
@Lupi You're definitely overthinking this too. "apple of my eye" is an expression. It means something you cherish. The part about apples is obviously a play on words. I have no idea how you got an Adam and Eve reference out of that, or that the apples are somehow bad desires.
Also, the music being dreamy is just how APC made it. This is a cover of a grunge rock song from the 90s that definitely does not have a dreamy feel. So you can just throw all the stuff you said about them being like a child out the window.
I think this song is obviously about the Florence Nightingale effect where patients fall in love with their nurse, as well as addiction to painkillers.
And it seems like it's about someone in a mental institution too. The "shrinking in your head" is probably referencing psychiatry(shrinks), and having your face down on the rug is probably referencing being forcefully subdued.
everyone's entitled to their opinion, but some rly make it more complicated than it is. reading things like 'the rug is a vagina', i mean, come on.
also, the nurse as a drug metaphor seems poetically invalid. this lyric doesnt seem to contain an extended metaphor. take the sentence "she's got everything; i need pharmacy keys". 'she' would mean 'drug'. ok, but then he sais she, the drug, has 'pharmacy keys', which cant rly be a metaphor for something i think. so basically, than would be saying 'the drug has pharmacy keys'. makes no sense.
i think its simple. the verses are the nurse talking, basically waking a patient up ("say hello to...") to start his day, uselessly spent by studying the carpet etc (rug's topography) due to the patient being kinda fucked up still, in rehab prolly. the apples on the ground he sneezed out, are the bad desires (adam and eve reference) he lost now that he's being treated. theyre not in his eyes anymore ie he doesnt chase it anylonger.
the choruses are the patient himself; his illusion the nurse rly loves him because she takes care of him, because hes fuckd in the head still. thats why the music is dreamy, and somewhat childish, walt disney like. cause he's on the level of a child again due to the drugs fuckin him up, full of imagination.
great stuff.
@Lupi You're definitely overthinking this too. "apple of my eye" is an expression. It means something you cherish. The part about apples is obviously a play on words. I have no idea how you got an Adam and Eve reference out of that, or that the apples are somehow bad desires.
@Lupi You're definitely overthinking this too. "apple of my eye" is an expression. It means something you cherish. The part about apples is obviously a play on words. I have no idea how you got an Adam and Eve reference out of that, or that the apples are somehow bad desires.
Also, the music being dreamy is just how APC made it. This is a cover of a grunge rock song from the 90s that definitely does not have a dreamy feel. So you can just throw all the stuff you said about them being like a child out the window.
I think this song is obviously about the Florence Nightingale effect where patients fall in love with their nurse, as well as addiction to painkillers.
And it seems like it's about someone in a mental institution too. The "shrinking in your head" is probably referencing psychiatry(shrinks), and having your face down on the rug is probably referencing being forcefully subdued.