Brompton Cocktail lyrics

I feel like it is just that he is sick of life. He "won't struggle on in a world so cold, in a world so wrong." He isn't literally terminally ill, he just feels that the world is slowly killing him. The "Brompton Cocktail" eases his pain by killing him and removing him from this world. AX7 says "such a price that WE pay." Since not everyone in the world has a terminal illness, I don't feel like this song is speaking of a literal terminal illness. Maybe I'm reading to much symbolism into the song, but this is how it makes me feel.

Motherwolf, I can see where you're coming from, but I do think you overthought it. The songs message is pretty obvious, considering a brompton cocktail is a strong mix of drugs used for terminally ill people, including heroin, cocaine, alchohol, and chlorpromazine. It releives pain, and makes the dying patient happier during his last days. So the song is basically written about a dying man wanting his brompton cocktail, so he can die happy.

to me this song is about a person who has been ill for a long time and they no that there going to die in the hospitale and they want the doc to give them a drug like heroin or something to make they feel "alive" befor they die.

I guess I just interpret the song different from most people. I looked past the literal meaning of the words, I don't know, maybe I overanalyzed it. . .

I hear it, and imagine someone who's not been true to who they really are, someone who's been held down for so long by either an addiction or something (or someBODY) of the likes, who is determined to take [back] his life, to get back under his own control in order to be able to die happy without regret, as opposed to being pulled beyond the point of no return by said object of oppression.

". . . my sins will be forgiven. . . my choice will save me from this life. . . " I interpret this verse to mean basically 'what's done is done and cannot be changed; mistakes have been recognized, lesson learned; I now can move on. . . '

Maybe I overthought it, but listen to the song again and see if you can fit that to it. . .

Nice song i agree with yanging its something more then embrasing death.