Garbage Songs - Medication Lyrics

Garbage - Medication

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Album: Version 2.0
Released: 1998

Medication Lyrics

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

[Chorus]
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

[Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

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: Manson, Shirley Ann / Vig, Bryan David / Erickson, Douglas Elwin / Marker, Steve W
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Medication

Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson explained the origins of this song: "I'd gotten really sick when I arrived in Madison, and I was really frightened because I was all by myself in a foreign country and I had no idea about how the medical system works here. I was feeling very isolated and very paranoid. I was terrified. I remember I was sitting in the studio waiting on some of the boys arriving, and I was freaked out so I wrote these words out really quickly in two minutes. When the boys came in I said, 'I've got a song and we have to record it now!' It's a reflection on past ills in a way." (thanks, Beth - MN)

Shirley Manson has a well documented history of anxiety, self-esteem issues and periods of self-injury, which lends a literalized double meaning to the line "it cuts me to the bone." The opening line, "I don't need an education" might directly refer to a particularly depressive time in her life when she was bullied at school. Manson particularly seems to be calling for an end to stigmatizing depressed people and those who use medication to treat it: "And still you call me co-dependent. Somehow you lay the blame on me."

In 2005, Blender magazine asked Manson what medication she was on. She said, "I'm so chock-full of pills I literally couldn't even tell you how many I take. It's frightening. I have pills to fix everything." Asked if they were working, she said, "You tell me."