“Novacaine” was the first single from 10 Years eighth album (How To Live) As Ghosts. Singer Jesse Hasek wrote it about how people get desensitized and numb to life as they get older. It became the band’s fifth top 10 song on the US Mainstream Rock chart.
[Verse 1]
With dirt on your knees
And blood in your teeth
You want life to lead you to believe in something
But it's coming
Ah, ah, the numbing
So we dive on into the deeper end
For a blissful kiss from Judas' lips
But it's coming
Oh yeah, the numbing
[Chorus 1]
Super novacaine
(You're dead as dead can be)
You won't feel a thing
Sleepwalking
(You're dead as dead can be)
You won't feel a thing
[Verse 2]
Analyzed and diagnosed
Overexposed to the undertow
You'll never know it's coming
Ah, ah, the numbing
So you meditate or medicate
To maintain or to get away
But it's coming
Oh yeah the numbing
[Chorus 1]
Super novacaine
(You're dead as dead can be)
You won't feel a thing
Sleepwalking
(You're dead as dead can be)
You won't feel a thing
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus 2]
Super novacaine
(You're dead as dead can be)
You won't feel a thing
Sleepwalking
(You're dead as dead can be)
Living in a dream
[Chorus 1]
Super Novacaine
(You're dead as dead can be)
You won't feel a thing
Sleepwalking
(You're dead as dead can be)
You won't feel a thing
Novacaine was written by Brian Vodinh & Jesse Hasek & Matt Wantland & Chad Huff.
Novacaine was produced by Nick Raskulinecz.
Singer Jesse Hasek offers
Six albums and a hundred songs in, I wondered if I've already written my best stuff. But at some point, you start to get real adult problems. You see people go from such optimism in their 20s to having life just beat them down later. I think we all kind of get desensitize...