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Monologue Substance Abuse

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The song reflects on the events that occur during a child’s experience with alcohol abuse in a parent, it offers descriptive details of the incidents and the backlashes that follow with it. It tells a story of how a child is stuck within a hospital with his or her parent with an addiction. The narrator then goes on to describe the scene with multiple senses, and expresses the dreadfulness of the repetition he/she experiences in the ICU. The song offers no resolution and simply states that there’s constant relapses that they can’t help. The theme is abuse and emotional damage inflicted. It offers an insight on the lives of those experiencing this type of abuse and brings in a first person perspective of the situation. This ultimately suggests …show more content…

The song ties me into the story it’s unraveling and makes me feel sympathetic for the narrator of the song. The lyrics within the song consist of higher vocabulary and often contain words with overweighing connotative meanings. Such as “The anesthetic never set in and I'm wondering where the apathy and urgency is that I thought I phoned in…” This particular set of lyrics tells the listener that he was in a state of emergency and that he is dealing with difficult situations that haven’t become clear yet. There’s also a good amount of repetition heard within the song, which emphasises the relapses the parent of the narrator is going through such as “Can’t take the kid from the fight, take the fight from the kid. Sit back, relax, sit back, relapse again”. This affects me in the sense that the narrator had to constantly deal with this struggle and how awful it must have been. I’ve been through similar situations when dealing with past parental issues, and listening to this piece offers a sense of unity in handling the types of emotions that result in drunken rages; it acted as a way for me to cope and understand my feelings

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