Lyrics
You put the boy in the box mother fucker!
Expressing anger and blame towards someone for confining or restricting a person (referred to as "the boy") in a metaphorical box.
Then you nailed down the top and you locked it!
Highlighting the permanence and severity of the confinement by securing and locking the box.
You threw away the key, like you threw away me
Comparing the abandonment of the speaker to discarding a key, emphasizing the feeling of being thrown away.
confined to a life with no others,
Describing a life devoid of connections with others due to the imposed confinement.
You put the boy in the box mother fucker!
Reiterating the frustration and anger towards the person responsible for the confinement.
It said handle with care but you dropped it!
Emphasizing negligence and mishandling by mentioning "handle with care" but dropping the box.
Isolation therapy, that's what created me
Referring to the speaker's experience as a form of isolation therapy, suggesting it contributed to their current state.
Locked in, left out and broke my mother!
Expressing the impact of isolation on the speaker's relationship with their mother, emphasizing a sense of brokenness.
Beat em until he bleeds
Describing physical abuse inflicted on the speaker until they bleed.
Beat him until he pleads
Continuing the theme of abuse, with a plea for mercy or escape.
Beat em until his bones break
Intensifying the brutality by causing bone fractures through violence.
Then we'll give him one more
Suggesting a cycle of abuse by implying another round of punishment.
Get him outta the way
Advocating for the removal of the speaker from the abuser's life, reducing them to insignificance ("junk drawer").
Get him outta our site
-Get him outta our life
-Just keep him in the junk drawer
-Preying upon his mind
Continuing the theme of preying on the speaker's mind and creating chaos in their head.
Just a matter of time
-Makin' his head a mess
-That's how we're gonna do it
-Keep him locked up, keep him fucked up
Expressing the intention to ensure the speaker remains trapped and damaged.
Gonna make for damn sure, he'll never get through it
-You put the boy in the box mother fucker!
Repeating the earlier narrative, reinforcing the impact of isolation on the speaker's relationship with their mother.
Then you nailed down the top and you locked it!
-You threw away the key, like you threw away me
-Confined to a life with no others
-You put the boy in the box mother fucker!
-It said handle with care but you dropped it
-Isolation therapy, that's what created me
-Locked in, left out and broke my mother!
-Trapped inside my life
Describing the speaker's desperate and painful existence, contemplating self-harm, and seeking justice against the abuser.
Praying that I could die
-Digging out my eyes
-And I couldn't get a witness
-How can you be inspired
-A crime against your child
-Throw you in the fire
-And cleanse you of your sickness
-Making a fucking stand
Encouraging resilience and standing up against the abuser, using pain as a source of strength.
You got to be a man
-Got to believe you can and now it's time to prove it
-Taking it back now, taking it right now
-Be an animal just take the pain and use it
-You put the boy in the box mother fucker!
Reiterating the confinement theme and the impact on the speaker's relationship with their mother.
Then you nailed down the top and you locked it
-You threw away the key, like you threw away me
-Confined to a life with no others
-You put the boy in the box mother fucker!
-It said handle with care but you dropped it
-Isolation therapy, that's what created me
-Locked in, left out and broke my mother
-You can't keep me locked up up
Asserting the speaker's determination to break free and overcome the imposed constraints.
You can't keep me fucked up up
-You can't keep me cuffed up up
-Cause I'm the boy in the box
-You put the boy in the box mother fucker!
Repeating the main themes of confinement, negligence, isolation therapy, and the speaker's resolve to overcome adversity.
Then you nailed down the top and you locked it!
-You threw away the key, like you threw away me
-Confined to a life with no others!
-You put the boy in the box mother fucker!
-It said handle with care but you dropped it!
-Isolation therapy, that's what created me
-Locked in, left out and broke my mother
-You put the boy in the box!
-
Comment