![]() Robb continued, "We gave her camp a song called 'Inside of You.' … We heard it and didn't really love it so we passed on using it. ![]() I don't think anyone else in the band had, either, at the time." Who do you have in mind?' It was Rihanna. He explained, "This kind of stuff happens all the time. And if a listener attempts to derive more from “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” than that, then they might miss out on what is actually a work of art in terms of role playing.In a statement to Consequence, Hoobastank singer Doug Robb elaborated, "Back when we were recording our third album, Every Man for Himself, we were approached by someone at our label, Island Def Jam, about potentially featuring a 'new artist.'" Or another way of looking at it is that the band came across a book/film they liked and challenged themselves to write a song from the perceived perspective of one of the characters who would be featured therein – not necessarily a main character but perhaps one of the inmates on the periphery. In other words, the singer more or less cast himself into the book. Indeed such was apparently the intended purpose of the book itself. Another popular theory is that the is actually setting out to present this song from the perspective of an individual who is in fact mentally ill. But honestly, more than anything this track reads like a song which is simply based on a movie. So conclusively, as to what exactly Metallica set out to accomplish via this narrative is not specifically clear. For instance, the band does occasionally take up causes, and perhaps it can be said that they are speaking on behalf of people who actually find themselves abused in psychiatric institutions. ReasonĪnd most pointedly in the second verse, we see that the abuse they suffer is not only physical but also psychological. Indeed the staff of the sanitarium has the singer afraid to actually venture out into the world and “breathe the open air”. So this scenario generally fits into the plot of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, in which the staff of the featured psychiatric hospital is presented as being oppressive. Now keeping in mind that these abused individuals can actually leave whenever they want, that then begs the question of why they would endure such treatment in the first place. inmates, are “getting restless” and thinking about launching a “mutiny” against the workers at the sanitarium. And why is that important? Simply because it becomes increasingly obvious that the singer and his fellow inmates are going through some type of hell in this institution. For instance, in the first we can see that that the staff of the facility sometimes tie inmates up as a form of therapy. Or stated bluntly, the use of violence is common in their treatment processes. In fact it is so much so that at the end of the day the “natives”, i.e. ![]() Song’s NarrativeĪnd in terms of deciphering the entire narrative of this track, that premise is important to keep in mind. ![]() Or more specifically, in the track, the narrator plays the role of someone institutionalized in a mental-health facility. And before going any further, let’s make something clear. An inmate is not obligated to actually reside inside a sanitarium, meaning that in reality the singer can leave any time he wants to. And this reality is actually alluded to in the first verse when he states “no locked doors, no windows barred”. Now said book is set in a mental institution, a theme which this song copies.
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