Lyrics Illness as a Metaphor - Benjamín Walker, Justin Levine, Maria Elena Ramirez

Illness as a Metaphor

Oh, Andrew Jackson
Oh, Andrew Jackson
Oh, Andrew Jackson
Oh, Andrew Jackson
Oh, Andrew Jackson
Oh, Andrew Jackson
Oh, Andrew Jackson
Oooo
I think you might be the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen
My name is Rachel
A wise woman once wrote
That illness is not metaphor
So why do I feel sick when I look at you?
There is this illness in the end I need
To get it out
So when I bleed
It’s not blood
It’s a metaphor for love
These aren’t veins
Just the beating of my heart
This fever isn’t real
It represents how I feel
My pain transformed into art
If you feel like you might throw up
Well that’s a metaphor for how I feel
When I dream of you
Bathed in your metaphorical blood
And when the doctor says you’re gonna make it
I tell him why I’m able to take
It’s not blood
It’s a metaphor for love
These aren’t veins
Just the beating of my heart
This fever isn’t real
It represents how I feel
My pain transformed into art
My pain transformed into art
But Susan Sontag’s dead
So I guess her cancer wasn’t metaphorical after all
Sorry