Disturbed: Down with the Sickness Meaning

Song Released: 2000

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Down with the Sickness Lyrics

Can you feel that?
Ah shit

Drowning deep in my sea of loathing
Broken your servant I kneel
(Will you give in to me?)
It seems what's left of my human side
Is slowly changing in me
(Will you give in to me?)

Looking at my own...

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   anonymous

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   Aug 18th 2008, 12:42 report

   
   

   I always thought that the guy who sings it worked at a mental institution and that he knew someone who was beaten as a child and killed his mom.
   
   but then again I know a lot of people who just like making me look like an idiot.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Aug 7th 2008, 00:40 report

   
   

   I don't think he means a mom when he says "you mother"....I think that he just means more like "you mother f*cker" , but hey, that's way to many syllables for the line...tee hee
   
   I think the song is about inner corruption....watching yourself become some horrible thing....and in some sick, masochistic way. enjoying it!

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Nov 26th 2007, 21:24 report

   
   

   Bahaha..."completely baboon"?? that is soo lame!!
   not to mention racist!
   
   if the composer himself said it was about his childhood then so be it..no need to argue anymore case closed sheesh..
   
   n to that dude who said "Hail Hitler"..you do realise that david is a Jew?..moron

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   erinw88

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   Sep 12th 2007, 01:10 report

   
   

   What are you talking about? I just laughed at that, that's so wrong, what I said first is the meaning, I swear, it came from David himself, I promise.

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   anonymous

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   Aug 10th 2007, 10:37 report

   
   

   Ok this song is about the main character going to prison and being rapped by this big, and more than likely black man.
   
   FIRST VERSE
   line one and two are telling you he is in prison
   line three is the big black guy
   line four is talking about this big black guy who looks like a baboon is going to rape him and slowly put his baboonness inside him
   line five is the black guy again
   
   if you listen to the song you can hear the chase that the black guy is giving him with the "AWW AWW" screeches
   
   SECOND VERSE
   this is where the black guy catches him
   line one is where he looks at his ruined ass in the mirror
   line two and three is his hole changing cause a big baboon has been in it
   line three is once you go black you never go back
   line four he is a baboon now, and he rapes other prisoners
   
   CHORUS
   line one is incourageing more people to be baboons and rape
   line two is kinky and he is telling people to rape him
   line three is more about the gay agenda
   as is four and five
   line six is glorifing being gay
   
   THIRD VERSE
   line one he is trying to convince others they are gay
   line two he is brainwashing them
   line three he takes the role of the baboon
   line four and five he tries to excuse his actions
   
   FOURTH VERSE
   line one, two, and three he is helping someone cope with turning baboon
   line four and five he is blaming all of his rapes on the baboon that rapped him
   
   THE MOMMY PART
   this is where his newly aquired aids is eating his brain and he is spitting out random sentences, ignore this part... It is dumb and ruins the song
   
   CHORUS
   it is still the same except the last line has changed to tell every one that he is completly baboon now.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Jun 1st 2007, 15:11 report

   
   

   Okay to get some stuff straight. The song is an original disturbed song undoubtedly not redone or any of that shit. The drum beat at the beginning is a disturbed trademark and the bark and everything. It is all Draiman's lyrics. The cheese dude whoever he is did a jazz version but it's not his. and the song is about society. you can't argue with a direct quote from the artist who did the song. and not all songs have to be from a personal and literal perspective so get off the whole thing of him being abused by his mother. The end part where he's screaming is to further push the point of how society(mother) hurts and pushes and does all this shit to the people who are subject to it(child). And anyone who has met Draiman, I envy you.

   
   
   
   

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   Crittic47274

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   May 6th 2007, 20:33 report

   
   

   Ok Richard Cheese did a version of this song, and it's not an old song, you can tell by just listening to the audio of the song. This is A Disturbed original at it's best and I totally believe the whole mother society quote but to tell you the truth I'm sick of hearing how awful the world is. Yet Disturbed still rocks.

   
   
   
   

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   erinw88

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   Apr 3rd 2007, 23:58 report

   
   

   Yes, Stupify, But Not Down With the Sickness.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Apr 3rd 2007, 00:45 report

   
   

   Stupify has to do with racist assholes. He gives an example of when he dated a girl of different race. It also shows how the world is dark and sinister. Like in the video.

   
   
   
   

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    erinw88

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    Apr 2nd 2007, 23:51 report

    
    

    I'm Telling You, He Himself Said That Quote, And He Pretty Much Disliked The Way His Mother Treated Him Just As Anyone Dislikes How Their Mother Treats Them.

    
    
    
    

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    anonymous

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    Apr 2nd 2007, 03:51 report

    
    

    Last time they were is my city touring with drowning pool, I met up with david for drinks at gilhooleys, and asked him why the song in question was absolutely insane. and with a complete straight face, he pretty much said exactly what that dude said up there about mother beating down children. It's about society, straight up

    
    
    
    

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    anonymous

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    Mar 30th 2007, 10:50 report

    
    

    David hates the way his mother treated him.

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    erinw88

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    Mar 26th 2007, 02:24 report

    
    

    For all the stupid people who think this is really about his mother, you're all very, very stupid, learn to interpret. This is a quote straight from David Draimen, "speaks about the eternal struggle of the individual against the mother culture of society that is constantly trying to beat the child struggling for independence and individuality into submission."

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    anonymous

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    Mar 1st 2007, 15:35 report

    
    

    OK first of all disturbed never even wrote this song it is a song from around the 50s or 60s. It was played by a jazz band. Disturbed just remade it into a rock song and claimed it as their own. Some real artist.

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    anonymous

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    Nov 26th 2006, 06:36 report

    
    

    if anyone ever listened to the live version of this song u'll notice that at the beginning there's an adzan (a call for muslims in time for prayer), which BTW is recited incorrectly, followed by a voice saying "ladies nad gentlemen, boys and girls dying time is here". I've been wanting to know what David's real intentions were in doing that. Is he trying to "emphasise" something?

    
    
    
    

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    anonymous

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    Nov 6th 2006, 22:51 report

    
    

    I read a review in which David is quoted as having said the song is indeed about "mother culture." note the song "welcome burden" (the face of our mother culture is sickening). The sickness is simply part of humanity, and an unavoidably heritable trait. Looking back through history, how many countless people have been "down with the sickness?" as society becomes more oppressive and restrictive, the natural human desire for autonomy and control eventually breaks through. Revolutionaries throughout the ages have demonstrated this as they have been catalysts for a myriad of radical social reforms. As dave said himself, the song is primarily allegorical.

    
    
    
    

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    RollingStone

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    Oct 21st 2006, 07:07 report

    
    

    By the way, everybody is anonymous, why?
    
    Is it because you're chubby and fat? (will and grace)
    
    peace out!

    
    
    
    

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    RollingStone

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    Oct 21st 2006, 06:56 report

    
    

    By the way, if capitalism hasn't improved his life, then he's actually red, which I applaud. Go go red front:-p
    
    come on, he hates materialism, he gotta be ready for the red baloon... Now I know this is americano... And communism failed and all, but I gotta see it as a testament to workers and the benefit of sharing.
    
    You got 100 dollars and wanna share, whom do you give it to? Govenment or closest friends? Either way, its given to the public. Greed is capitalism, and sharing is communism?
    
    Go reds!

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    RollingStone

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    Oct 21st 2006, 06:46 report

    
    

    Speaking of which, when did he become charity incorporated?
    
    Music is money, and he'll get his fair share... Talking about mother society gotta be a joke from him, unless he did it pro bono.
    
    In which case I salute, but otherwise, he's spilling his guts out!
    
    Gods speed!

    
    
    
    

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    RollingStone

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    Oct 21st 2006, 06:35 report

    
    

    Mother culture??? Please specify!
    
    You mean taking care of the poor and sick? And having everybody get a chance in life?
    
    Mother culture? To show some emotions? I'm baffled!
    
    Please specify!
    
    Gods speed!

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