“Medication” is track #4 on Garbage’s second album Version 2.0.
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 her...
[Verse 1]
I don't need an education
I learnt all I need from you
They 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 1]
Somebody get me out of here
I'm tearing at myself
Nobody gives a damn about me
Or anybody else
[Verse 2]
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
Though it's really not surprising
I hold a force I can't contain
[Chorus 1]
Somebody get me out of here
I'm tearing at myself
Nobody gives a damn about me
Or anybody else
[Bridge]
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
[Chorus 2]
Somebody get me out of here
I'm tearing at myself
I've got to make a point these days
To extricate myself
[Chorus 1]
Somebody get me out of here
I'm tearing at myself
Nobody gives a damn about me
Or anybody else
[Outro]
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
Somehow you lay the blame on me
Somehow you lay the blame on me
Medication was written by Duke Erikson & Butch Vig & Steve Marker & Shirley Manson.
Medication was produced by Garbage.
Garbage released Medication on Mon May 11 1998.