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Dec 9, 2014
Dec 9, 2014
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it, the apocalypse
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"This is it the apocalypse" refers to the way in which you feel as if all is coming to an end, the terror you feel when you hear the words, 'you have cancer' or when you are undergoing treatment or scanning. When one has a PET scan (or any other scan for that matter) one is radioactive! Literally!
Dec 9, 2014
"
in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus
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"I'm breaking in shaping up then checking out on the prison bus" refers to how very quickly one is plunged into the realm of cancer, having had paediatric cancer I have bore witness to the community that revolves around children's cancer (incidentally it is an underrepresented disease which is in dire need of more attention!), it discusses how at first one feels as if they don't belong, there are always those who have it worse "breaking in", "shaping up" refers to the way in which one quickly becomes immersed in the culture and jargon of the whole affair. But all to soon circumstances change and you feel alienated yet still tethered to the cancer.
Dec 9, 2014
Dec 9, 2014
I completely agree with Carla Van Ess! I was diagnosed with cancer at age 12, and (I'm approaching 14) and I perceived the song to be about cancer. I could see parallels with having PET scans, in which one has to inhale a radioactive tracer (in actuality I had the tracer administered intravenously, yet I witnessed people inhaling the tracer). "Breathing in the chemicals"