Careful What You Wish For (the doctor said to) by Jack Harris

This week’s Song of the Week was suggested by MIA reader Chris Dubey:

“The song is about losing one’s range of emotions after trying psychiatric drugs to deal with emotional pain. As stated in this interview with Jack Harris, the song’s lyrics take on a darker, more serious tone, exploring Harris’s personal struggle with mental health treatment. ‘It was sort of me expressing the darker experience that I had with trying to figure out the proper way to medicate anxiety and depression,’ Harris said.”

Lyrics: 

I miss my old emotions
I miss the pain I used to have
I’m going through the motions
I’d sell my soul to make me sad

I needed something
To help me get through
I wanted something
And the doctor said to

Take this pill, you’ll feel much better
When you wake up numb and your brain’s been severed
And your heartbeat won’t be based on the weather
When you sell yourself to me
Took your peace, your pain, your pleasure
And I left you with one face forever
You won’t hurt anymore, be careful what you wish for

Something is missing, there’s predisposition
I feel like I’m living inside of my head
How can they sell you on something to help you
Then tell you it might make you wish you were ____?

I needed something
To help me get through
I wanted something
And the doctor said to

Take this pill, you’ll feel much better
When you wake up numb and your brain’s been severed
And your heartbeat won’t be based on the weather
When you sell yourself to me
Took your peace, your pain, your pleasure
And I left you with one face forever
You won’t hurt anymore, be careful what you wish for

Be careful, be careful
Be careful what you wish for
Be careful, be careful
Be careful what you wish for
Be careful, be careful
Be careful what you wish for
Be careful, be careful
Be careful what you wish for