Top Rated Interpretation
anonymous
November 10th, 2007 01:12AM
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This song is about a recipricol cycle. a Sanitarium is a place of recooperation, the person who is the subject of this song is recovering from a disease or mental illness (judging from being in a sanitarium).
however it is a misinformed opinion that mental illnesses cannot be cured, and because he was once sick, he cannot recover and people refuse to believe that he is cured - "Just labeled mentally deranged"
"No locked doors, no windows barred" and "They keep me locked up in this cage" are contradictory statements, but make sense if they are put in the context of the later revelations in this statement - "Build my fear of what's out there
Cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
Assuring me that I'm insane"
This passage suggests to me that this person is cured, but people believe that he is sick, and are insisting to him that he is sick; so he believes that he is sick too.
This relates to "No locked doors, no windows barred" and "They keep me locked up in this cage" in the way that he has built a dependence on the institution, he does not believe that he can cope with the outside world because he is being forced to believe that he is sick.
The later parts of the song demonstrate the strength of the human mind, dispite his metaphorical prison and he belief that he cannot survive outside, he still wants to escape. The efforts to escape end up turning against him.
The speed of the song picks up, suggesting a frenzied attempt, but the attempt manifests itself in a violent way:
"kill is such a friendly word
seems the only way
for reaching out again"
The violence of the escape would confirm the belief that he is crazy, and hence strengthen the institutions' efforts to assure him that he is insane.
anonymous
July 7th, 2007 01:44PM
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The guy who posted above me is a moron!
First off, you come on calling people stupid for writing their interpretation of a song, then you go and make an ass out of yourself when you start talking about a completely different song on a completely different album. Just a reminder, the song being talked about here is called "Welcome Home" from an album named Master of Puppets.
"Fed through the tube that sticks in me
just like a wartime novelty "
Those are lyrics for a song called "One" from an album called And Justice for All, maybe you heard of it?
anonymous
June 22nd, 2009 08:24PM
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the mental institution interpretation is much too literal for me. personally i see it as fitting in with society as a whole. how there are so many people telling you what to do, how to act, and what to think about yourself on a constant basis. despite this, you still know who you are and what to do with yourself, but not really taking your own advice and conforming anyways.
almost as if this was the bands interpretation of most people.
