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Medication by Silverstein

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Silverstein

Medication

Release date: 25th April 2011

From Rescue
Track 1
4:30
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About This Track

'Medication' by Silverstein is an alternative track from the album 'Rescue', released in 2011. The lyrics are suffused with anxious self-repair, imagining external control delivered as “good intentions” and framed as a route to safety and perfection. Repeated vows of not making mistakes sit alongside images of being cut to the core, with emotional numbness replacing feeling. The overall mood is resigned and uneasy, like a protest conducted in the language of compliance.

"Medication" is a track by Silverstein, from the album Rescue, released 25th April 2011. The track is 4:30 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Silverstein.

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Silverstein

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Lyrics

Medication

We'll keep calm and carry on
With good intentions
They'll prescribe the rights and wrongs
Until we're perfect
So maybe one day we'll be safe
In control and full of grace
Never making a mistake
So flawless
Cut us deeper to the core
We won't feel a thing
Imperfections weighing more
Repressing difference
I wish this wasn't all so hard
To be yourself and not on gaurd
To stop the racing in your heart
We'll fight it
Put me under
Now I'm powerless
I'll take it all
I'll Take it all
I'll take it
I can't breathe without you
You won't trust me
I won't trust you too
Bring me back and
Bring me back and
Bring it
Medicate me
Hide me deeper in my shed
Until I'm all alone
I'm hearing voices in this sound
Hallucinating
I could have sworn I heard it too
A sudden, beautiful adieu
It's telling me what I should do
I follow
Put me under
Now I'm powerless
I'll take it all
I'll take it all
I'll take it
I can't breathe without you
You won't trust me
I won't trust you too
Bring me back and
Bring me back and
Bring it
Medicate me now
As I'm turning into dis-reflection
You can't slow me
My body and my mind
My emotions and my pride
The simplest things became the hardest part now
The easiest parts have taken all my dreams
I'm afraid
I'll never be okay
I'm afraid
I'm scared I can't be happy
I'm afraid
This silence you feel is not a way to be sincere (I'm afraid)
And it's a way to cope
A way to heal (I'm scared I can't be happy)
But not for me when I can't feel (I'm afraid)
The subtleties that make me want to (I'll never be okay)
Be alive and not a statue (I'm afraid)
Breathe the air
Be me to talk to (I'm scared I can't be happy)
I'm afraid (I'll never be the same)

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From Rescue

4:302011
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Album
Rescue
Rescue
Silverstein
26th April 2011
Track number
1
Release year
2011
  1. 1Medication
    4:30
  2. 2Sacrifice
    2:35
  3. 3Forget Your Heart
    3:43
  4. 4Intervention
    3:05

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