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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   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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   anonymous

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   Oct 5th 2006, 07:50 report

   
   

   According to another lyric meaning website, "the sickness" is any difference from society's high and mighty standards, the abusive mother is a metaphor for society rejecting "the sickness" and trying to "beat" and ridicule the difference out of everyone else so that all people are the same. Getting "down with the sickness" is accepting difference in others and david screaming at the abusive mother is also a metaphor for people getting sick and tired of society and beating the mother down. Eventually all humans will see through the facade of perfection that the capitalist society has set for us and tear through it, killing the mother as david seems to when he says "here it comes get ready to die!"

   
   
   
   

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   RollingStone

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   Sep 28th 2006, 09:50 report

   
   

   Talking about abuse.
   I think he's talking from a personal perspective, no matter what he says.
   Abuse, or not... He touches the abusee's feelings, albeit with the hate aspect clearly visible...
   What to do other than react? I find it an expression of the thoughts related to abuse, and what repercussions it has.
   He sounds like a boy, torn between thought - action, hate - love, the evident two possibilities... The sickness lies in the ambivalence... You know its wrong, but the love is still there... Wicked
   
   peace out!

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Aug 31st 2006, 08:51 report

   
   

   (this is the guy who said it's about his mother abusing david) o ok thanks man, I'll keep that in mind I guess I kindof got carried away, lol

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   anonymous

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   Aug 26th 2006, 10:32 report

   
   

   Dick cheese is making fun of songs by singing them to elevator music you dumbass.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Aug 20th 2006, 14:37 report

   
   

   Ummm not really dude above, he actually mentioned on the disturbed M.O.L. [meaning of life] dvd that down with the sickness was about the mother culture and society as to what most of the other users has said and how the mother culture has beaten down society yes I know because I met him back in September in town during a concert so I would know kay thanks :)

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Aug 2nd 2006, 08:10 report

   
   

   Ok...Whats all this crap about society??? Its about how David's mother used to abuse him ase a child!!! Like at the end of the song, David sings all the stuff like no mommy don't do it again ill be a good boy I promise why don't you just f%$# up and die! And so on. Cuz (and I'm serious about this) David's mother abused him as a child, period.

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   nirvanarules

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   Jul 27th 2006, 13:52 report

   
   

   The song is about his mother and how she use to abuse him and stuff that's why that one part when he is yelling at her and cursing at her the name then when he says down with the sickness it means she has turned him into an animal because he has all this rage against her

   
   
   
   

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   Spen

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   Jun 18th 2006, 18:55 report

   
   

   Richard cheese does parodies in a lounge style. Didn't his name give it away also. whats short for Richard? put it with his last name....

   
   
   
   

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    anonymous

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    Apr 18th 2006, 20:59 report

    
    

    I don't know who thought that this song was originally done by richard cheese, but I hope that's a joke. As far as interpretations, I believe this song is also about society, as was written above.

    
    
    
    

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    anonymous

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    Mar 10th 2006, 06:13 report

    
    

    vivi, what is the sense in coming to a site like this and typing exactly what goes on in the song? The point of "interpretations" is to find the meaning behind the lyrics.

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    anonymous

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    Feb 21st 2006, 17:58 report

    
    

    This is song is a remake of the orignal by Richard cheese. The Song it Self Its probably about being pushed to a limit to where your viewed with a mental illness possibly.

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    anonymous

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    Jan 4th 2006, 13:37 report

    
    

    This song has to do with the lead singers childhood and how he hated his mother.

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