Emotion Sickness – English Lyrics

• By: Queens of the Stone Age
• Album: In Times New Roman…

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Use once and destroy

Single servings of pain

A dose of emotion sickness I just can't shake

Then my fever broke

...

You got no possessions, just your flesh on, yeah

See the sights, Holy Braille, feel as you might, oh-ah-ah

Rip some pieces free

Oh, atrocious, f-ferocious, oh

Check the price, alibi, buy by the slice

Yeah, absolutely

Don't care for me

Baby don't care for me

Had to let her go, oh

Baby don't care for me

Baby don't care for me

Had to let her go, oh

...

Gonna vacuum all the perfume, yeah

Hit the lights, keep your shit out of sight

No, it's giving me the creeps

Wanna chew gum, go on, get some, yeah

Put up a fight?

Well, let's have it right now

Baby don't care for me

Baby don't care for me

Had to let her go, oh

People come and go on the breeze

For a whole life? Possibly

I don't really know, oh

A flick of the switch, so smooth and clean

How we grow is so painful, believe me

Then my fever broke

...

Then my fever broke

...

Then my fever broke

Baby don't care for me

Baby don't care for me

Had to let her go, oh

People come and go on the breeze

For a whole life? Possibly

I don't really know, oh

Baby don't care for me

Baby don't care for me

Had to let her go, oh

People come and go on the breeze

For a whole life? Possibly

I don't really know, oh

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
destroy /dɪˈstrɔɪ/ B1	verb - To damage something so badly that it no longer exists or cannot be used or repaired.
servings /ˈsɜːrvɪŋz/ B1	noun - Amounts of food or drink for one person.
pain /peɪn/ A2	noun - The physical feeling caused by disease, injury, or something that hurts the body; mental or emotional suffering.
dose /doʊs/ B1	noun - A quantity of a medicine or drug taken or given at one time; an amount of something.
emotion /ɪˈmoʊʃn/ A2	noun - A strong feeling such as joy or anger.
sickness /ˈsɪknəs/ B1	noun - The state of being ill; a particular illness.
shake /ʃeɪk/ A2	verb - To move something quickly up and down or from side to side; to get rid of something unwanted.
fever /ˈfiːvər/ B1	noun - A medical condition in which you have a very high temperature; a state of nervous excitement.
possessions /pəˈzeʃnz/ B1	noun - Things that you own.
flesh /fleʃ/ B2	noun - The soft substance between the skin and bones of an animal or human body.
Braille /breɪl/ C1	noun - A system of writing and printing for blind people, in which characters are represented by patterns of raised dots that are felt with the fingertips.
rip /rɪp/ B1	verb - To tear or pull apart quickly or violently.
atrocious /əˈtroʊʃəs/ C1	adjective - Extremely bad or unpleasant.
ferocious /fəˈroʊʃəs/ C1	adjective - Extremely aggressive or violent.
alibi /ˈæləbaɪ/ B2	noun - Proof that someone was in another place at the time a crime was committed.
vacuum /ˈvækjuːm/ B2	verb - To clean with a vacuum cleaner; to remove completely.
creeps /kriːps/ B2	noun - (Idiomatic, usually 'the creeps') a feeling of fear and disgust.
breeze /briːz/ B1	noun - A gentle wind.
painful /ˈpeɪnfl/ B1	adjective - Causing physical or mental pain.
switch /swɪtʃ/ B1	noun - A device for making or breaking the connection in an electric circuit; a change or an act of changing.