The Cure
Red Harvest Lyrics

Electric shocks, injections, filling me, with more drugs
The singer is undergoing ECT therapy and receiving injections but still requires more drugs to treat their condition.

Lock me up, tie me down, this is the cure, that heals my mind
The singer is expressing how they are imprisoned in a mental health facility and forced to endure extreme measures like being restrained and confined as a form of treatment

Lost in a world of black, trapped within naked walls
The singer feels trapped within their own mind and the stark, emotionless environment of the facility they are kept in.

Is it my fear of reality, or the realities fear of me?
The artist is questioning whether it's their own fear of the outside world that causes them to be confined, or if the rest of society fears them.

Am I destructive, they say I am, am I a danger to society?
The artist is asking themselves if they truly are a threat to society or if it is just what they have been made to believe by those in power.

Why do they keep me inside this cage, once you're inside there's no way out
The singer is lamenting the fact that once a person is institutionalized, it is incredibly difficult to get out.

Cuffed inside these naked walls, an none ever hear my calls
The singer is expressing how they are voiceless and powerless in their current situation.

I cry, I beg, I pray to be free, but there's no hope in hell for me
The artist is desperately reaching out for anyone to hear their pleas but feels that there is no way out of their situation.

Confined within, I live my life inside
The artist feels stuck within their own mind, and their institutionalization only adds to their confinement.

Lock me up die me down
The artist is voicing how they are being dehumanized and stripped of their autonomy through forced confinement and medication.

Change my will, change my soul
The singer is expressing how the treatment they receive robs them of their ability to make decisions and changes who they are as a person fundamentally.

Give me dope, punish me
The artist believes the medication they are given is more of a punishment than a cure for their condition.

Hide me from reality The cure
The singer sees the facility and its harsh treatments as a way for the world to hide them, rather than truly helping them.

Who is the fool I say, who is the ones who make all things blow away And call me a lunie huh?
The singer is questioning who is truly in the wrong -- is it they who are insane or those who confine them?

You are like mice, lost in the haze, inside a world built as a maze You're moving on, you act so wrong, you think it's strange I'll never cope?
The singer sees the rest of the world as being strung out and going blindly through life, not realizing the extent of their own confinement.

Death, is your way Power, is your game Truth, you ignore Falseness, you obey
The artist is calling out society's obsession with power and blind adherence to false beliefs, which they see as being equally (if not more) insane than they are.

I'm not the one who should be here, you are the ones, you are the ones
The artist is asserting that it is the people who confine them who are truly the ones who belong in a facility.

Confined within, I live my life inside Lock me up, tie me down, Chain my will, change my soul Give me dope, punish me Hide me from reality
The song ends with a repetition of the earlier stanzas, with the singer summarizing their current state and how the treatments they receive only further imprison them.