Paranoia is if you think you’re followed and you feel your life is danger. But it’s no more paranoia if it’s true. This song expresses Dane’s views about the manipulation fed to the population. The medicated nation is a metaphor to the manipulated nation and their medicine and narcotics are the fake...
[Verse 1]
Slithering slow and serpentine
Coiled around your spine
My willing victim so sublime
One taste and you are mine
[Pre-Chorus]
Did you remember to feed me
While I was broken and bleeding?
[Verse 2]
Preaching words obsidian
On the wings of shattered man
The sightless wait, oblivious to the scourge
That stains their hands
[Pre-Chorus 1]
All you feel and all you do
The medication controls you
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Did you remember to feed me
While I was broken and bleeding?
[Chorus]
Now slap your vein
I'm the power of pain and pleasure symbiotic
I am, I am
In a medicated nation of blind neurotics
I am, I am
Psychotic pain baptized in pure narcotics
I am, I am
[Post-Chorus]
Did you remember to feed me
While I was broken and bleeding?
[Solo: Loomis]
[Verse 3]
Trapped in dark, seductive miracles
Deified addictive rituals
[Pre-Chorus 1]
All you feel and all you do
The medication controls you
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Did you remember to feed me
While I was broken and bleeding?
[Chorus]
Now slap your vein
I'm the power of pain and pleasure symbiotic
I am, I am
In a medicated nation of blind neurotics
I am, I am
Psychotic pain baptized in pure narcotics
I am, I am
[Outro]
All you feel and all you do
The medication controls you
Medicated Nation was written by Warrel Dane & Jeff Loomis & Jim Sheppard.
Medicated Nation was produced by Andy Sneap.
Nevermore released Medicated Nation on Tue Jul 26 2005.