To me, its about drug use and experience in an attempt to get away from something bothering them. As an addict in recovery I could relate very well with these lyrics describing that kind of situation. It might seem like the "glaring obvious" meaning but sometimes there's nothing deeper than what is said on the surface and when we try to put a deeper meaning into something that possibly doesn't have one we wind up missing the message it carries in the wind.
Sedated
Lyrics
Just a little rush, babe
To feel dizzy, to derail the mind of me
Just a little hush, babe
Our veins are busy but my heart's in atrophy
Any way to distract and sedate
Adding shadows to the walls of the cave
You and I nursing on a poison that never stung
Our teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of it
Somewhere for this, death and guns
We are deaf, we are numb
Free and young and we can feel none of it
Something isn't right, babe
I keep catching little words but the meaning's thin
I'm somewhere outside my life, babe
I keep scratching but somehow I can't get in
So we're slaves to any semblance of touch
Lord we should quit but we love it too much
Sedated we're nursing on a poison that never stung
Our teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of it
Somewhere for this, death and guns
We are deaf, we are numb
Free and young and we can feel none of it
Darlin', don't you, stand there watching, won't you
Come and save me from it
Darlin', don't you, join in, you're supposed to
Drag me away from it
Any way to distract and sedate
Adding shadows to the walls of the cave
You and I nursing on a poison that never stung
Our teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of it
Somewhere for this, death and guns
We are deaf, we are numb
Free and young and we can feel none of it
Sedated we're nursing on a poison that never stung
Our teeth and lungs are lined with the scum of it
Somewhere for this, death and guns
We are deaf, we are numb
Free and young and we can feel none of it
Writer(s): Andrew Hozier Byrne
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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What is the Meaning of Sedated
?
Certain periods of the middle class, post-2000, peoples' life. Longing and chasing, getting busy with all tons of crap that quite often don't matter for nothing, just keeping busy 24/7, and only the moment when even the tinniest glimpse of light fades away from your eyes, the very moment before you drown into sleep, you see fireworks framing the "my heart's atrophy" line, wishing there would be someone there to share your pillow with..
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