The Nurse Who Loved Me lyrics

It's not shaking in your head. It's the shrinking in your head.
Just sayin.

Only now do i realize that this song is about methadone. Atleast on one level it highly feels like methadone clinic and drugs in general.

Oh... Or maybe he really is in love and decided to kill her so he can bring her home.

I see it as a story about a patient in an asylum or psyche ward.

The apples symbolize both life and blood. Gone from her eyes, and bleeding out to the rug.

"... Everything you've left behind" could mean freedom. I'm not too sure about this... Since she's trying to "free" the patients from their "sickness," maybe she's "free" as a ghost so she "can't touch freedom" or cannot touch the subject of the patients being or getting "free" from their conditions.

In my imagination, the nurse is probably doing bad things to the patient. That's why the patient made her "apples" spill on the ground. :)

The first line seems to be about having fallen down with your face on the rocks, literally
shrinking in your head would seem to be an existential type of drug reference, not that people don't unknowingly recede in their heads without drugs sometimes
falling in "love" with a chick who's got access to drugs
drug access being the main portion of the attraction
the lady acting like a nurse with the other guys means she doesn't particularly flirt or any of that with anyone else. She saves the drugs & sex for singer dude
the apples on the ground to me is wasted potential or squandered capability
probably due to drug use and just general wasting of time
you don't know what you have until you lose it, so "it's even more a part of your life now that you can't touch it"

Annnd that about sums it up
failure is truly an awesome, way way underappreciated/ far-too-unknown band, and anyone who digs any sort of awesome modern rock and/or roll should go to the store and pick up "fantastic plaet" as soon as you can. Some of the member have gone on to form/ perform in year of the rabbit, autlox, on, campfire girls, the replicants, a perfect circle and also queens of the stone age