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People seem to know that they don’t truly love each other, so they lie more, and eventually the truth get’s so muddy that they don’t even know anymore.

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The song seems to be about a couple that got married for the wrong reasons. In this case, the husband got married for fear of loneliness, while she got married because of the apparent wealth of the husband.

They try and commit to this fake relationship as much as they can.

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The song is both a contemplation of The Patient’s sins and a critique on the church. In this line, he tells the priest that’s possibly inducting him into either heaven or hell that he should “get the choir boys around him” a subtle nod to the many accusations of pedophilia that the Catholic church has come under.

Essentially, he’s saying “I don’t care about your salvation. Go fuck children like the sick man you are”.

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Feng shui (风水) is the Chinese concept of harmonizing human life and existence with nature and your surroundings.

So he’s gonna harmonize his surroundings by getting really stoned.

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“Horror-show” means “good” in Nadsat, the vocabulary used by characters in Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange.

If you read it in conjunction with the next line, you realize Patrick is saying that even though things have been good in his life lately, he can’t seem to appreciate them and he wishes he wasn’t born.

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Ah, young love.

Isn’t it beautiful?

Also, this line seems to have a very immature teenage sentiment, best represented by this ilustration:

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This line works in two different ways:

  1. He doesn’t want the girl to simply speak sweet things in his ear, he doesn’t want puppy love. He wants actual sex. Sex so good it makes her vocal chords shred.

  2. He wants an exciting life, coming off from high-school. Not sweet whispers of people around him, but of throat-wrenching screams from a crowd.

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Not so subtle comment on the vainess and naiveté of youth.

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He’s a cunning master of deceipt, manufacturing chemistry (as in deep personal relationships that turn out to be fake, hence “manufactured”). With this ability and charisma, he manages to evade and lie his way thru life, represented by the tapestry.

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The song takes a slightly positive turn. The man is gettin cleaning appliances. He’s going to clean his past, and move on.

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