Medicine for the Dead Lyrics
[Intro]
Yeah
[Verse 1]
What happens in the dark feels the way the blackout never does
Turning the gears, sharpen the blades of sheer terror, these fevered ones
But tell me the secret things, show me the bloody kings
Let's play a game where the winners always lose their heads
[Pre-Chorus]
Time screams by, life is mine
Time screams by, life is…
Yeah
[Chorus]
Your condition is a symptom
We'll have to give you medicine for the dead
Drink me
Your condition is a symptom
We'll have to give you medicine for the dead
Drink me
[Verse 2]
Before it could begin, the shooting stopped, the silence always comes
Now where do we go? Because you're walking the streets, it's no better (There's something wrong)
Pull at your privacy, a product of lunacy
Don't be surprised when the losers want to win... but then again
Time screams by, life is mine
Time screams by, life is…
Yeah
[Chorus]
Your condition is a symptom
We'll have to give you medicine for the dead
Drink me
Your condition is a symptom
We'll have to give you medicine for the dead
Yeah
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Where does it end and tell me where does it go?
If evil exists, then only evil can know
When do we run and are they letting us in?
Where does it end and tell me where to begin
[Chorus]
Your condition is a symptom
We'll have to give you medicine for the dead
Drink me
Your condition is a symptom
We'll have to give you medicine for the dead
(Medicine for the dead)
Your condition is a symptom
We'll have to give you medicine for the dead
Drink me
Your condition is a symptom
We'll have to give you medicine for the dead
You have to drink me
(You know you're
Dying slowly, dying slowly
Dying, dying, right?
Know that you're dying slowly
Dying slowly
Dying, dying right now)
About
Q&A
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Corey Taylor:
“Medicine For The Dead” is one of those songs about anyone who deals with depression, physical depression and clinical depression, who knows the feeling that you get when you start to feel the numbness come on, and you know there’s nothing you can do about it, you just have to ride it out. Even if you take meds for it, there’s nothing you can do. The fact that the minutes and the hours feel so long, and you’re waiting for that wave to go away. For me, it takes at least three days of dealing with that. I don’t take meds for it, I just try to deal with it and surround myself with people who will coax me out of it. So, Medicine For The Dead is almost from the therapist’s standpoint, where you re trying to find the right combination of chemicals for the numb, for the living comatose.
—via Metal Hammer
