Medication

Album: Version 2.0 (1998)
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  • I don't need an education
    I learnt all I need from you
    They've got me on some medication
    My point of balance was askew
    It keeps my temperature from rising
    My blood is pumping through my veins

    Somebody get me out of here
    I'm tearing at myself
    Nobody gives a damn about me or anybody else

    I wear myself out in the morning
    You're asleep when I get home
    Please don't call me self defending
    You know it cuts me to the bone
    And it's really not surprising
    I hold a force I can't contain

    Somebody get me out of here
    I'm tearing at myself
    Nobody gives a damn about me or anybody else

    And still you call me co-dependent
    Somehow you lay the blame on me
    And still you call me co-dependent
    Somehow you lay the blame on me

    Somebody get me out of here
    I'm tearing at myself
    I've got to make a point these days
    To extricate myself

    Somebody get me out of here
    I'm tearing at myself
    Nobody gives a damn about me or anybody else

    And still you call me co-dependent
    Somehow you lay the blame on me
    And still you call me co-dependent

    Somehow you lay the blame on me [Repeat: x3] Writer/s: BRYAN DAVID VIG, DOUGLAS ELWIN ERICKSON, SHIRLEY ANN MANSON, STEVE W. MARKER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Tristan from Hobart, Australia@MariaIsabel- the lyrics are actually 'I've got to make a point the days, to extricate myself".
  • Joel from Portland, OrI didn't really care for the song but the lyrics would fit in for an episode of House.
  • Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnThe violin and loud guitars in this song fit perfectly with Shirley's angst-ridden voice. This song is so dark, I love it!
  • Mike from Cicinnati, Ohis it just me or does this kinda sound like how they force ridolin in schools the line i'm tearing at myself is like what ever energy or force that is contained or bottled up by taking the drug rather then released
  • Maria Isabel from New London, CtThat is SO COOL! A couple of the lines at the end of the song go as follows:

    "Somebody get me out of here
    I'm tearing at myself
    I've got to make a point these days
    To educate myself."

    Until now I didn't understand that one verse but now it makes sense.
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