From the recording REBIRTH
"Medicate" is like a deceptively calm yet powerful river that lures you in with it's beauty, then threatens to drag you down deep into its dark depths with its hidden undercurrents. A grungy hard-rock ballad with a huge sing-along chorus, it's an engaging listen.
Lyrically the song shares the emotions and thoughts felt during the long nights struggling with insomnia - itself the result of years of running away from past loss and pain. In the darkness there is nowhere left to hide, and medication only provide temporary shelter.
Lyrics
I lie awake
I’m not alone here
Maybe that’s why it seems clearer to me
You’re in my head
I can’t shake you
I try to hide away
From you
I medicate
But you still break through
If this is all in my head
Please just wake me up
It’s what I waited for
It’s what I long for
I may be down now
But don’t count me out yet
Beneath the numbness
I am waiting for you
You’re in my head
I will shake you
You can’t hide away
From me
If this is all in my head
Please just wake me up
It’s what I waited for
It’s what I long for
You make it hard to forget
What I see in the mirror
It’s you I ran from
It’s you I medicate
Please wake me up
'cause I can’t breathe
You’re in my head
I medicate
But I still feel
My body aches
If this is all in my head
Please just wake me up
It’s what I waited for
It’s what I long for
(save myself)
You make it hard to forget
What I see in the mirror
It’s you I ran from
It’s you I medicate
I medicate
Just wake me up
I medicate