Lyric discussion by yanksfan 

I think that this the the patient's body singing to the patient himself. It is the body apologizing for letting the Patient down due to atrophy. The patient is a prisoner in his own body.

No, the patient is the wife of the singer. If you listen to the entire album (Hospice) you'll notice the story line. Hence the songs named Prologue and Epilogue.

Strong stuff. I would say the husband (or whoever the singer is) suffers from somekind of ATROPHY.... probably walks with on a wheelchair. He see's his love-one laying in a the hospital bed from a certain height.... "You've been living awhile in the front of my skull".

Odd couple... lots of suffering!

no yanksfan, you fool.

The narrator is longing to take away the pain and the sickness of his partner, the patient, and feels helpless. As well as this, she is abusive and irrational ("Threats of castration for crimes you imagine when I miss your call"), but he will stay with her until she goes, even though it's painful and traumatic.

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