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Jan 11th 2012!⃝Turn away.
If you could, get me a drink of water
'Cause my lips are chapped and faded.
Call my Aunt Marie.
Help her gather all my things
And bury me in all my favorite colors.
My sisters and my brothers.
Still, I will not kiss you.
'Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you.
This verse is about how 'The Patient' is telling the people he loves to 'turn away' and not watch him while he is suffering but just help him such as getting him a 'drink of water' and calling his 'Aunt Marie'. He wants them to be prepared when he dies and he wants them to know how he wants to go such as being buried in his favorite colors. He's trying to be strong and not say goodbye to his sisters and brothers and not 'kiss them' for the last time because that is the final sign of letting go. He's making the preparations, but he is still attached and is still holding on to his life, although he knows that in order to be at peace he has to die and let go.
Now turn away
'Cause I'm awful just to see
'Cause all my hair's abandoned all my body.
Oh, my agony.
Know that I will never marry.
Baby, I'm just soggy from the chemo.
But counting down the days to go.
It just ain't livin'
And I just hope you know
That if you say goodbye today
I'd ask you to be true.
'Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you.
'Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you.
Again he is telling them to turn away and not remember him like this but to remember him in his glory days. He thinks that they will love him less if they see him looking awful and having no hair while the truth is they just want to be able to love him and be with him as much as they can before he dies. He's trying to accept the fact that he's not going to be able to live his life and 'marry' and the fact that he has to spend his last days in agony is making him realize that life's not fair and that he needs to let go. He's saying that the chemo is making him tired and weak and he's given up fighting and trying to stay alive and has realized that he's going to die and is just counting down the days and waiting for it to happen. He realizes that if he has to live his life hooked to machines and in agony that he'd rather be dead because what's the point of living in agony and hating yourself? He's saying that if he dies today he wants people to tell him what they really think of him and how they honestly feel about him and not just sugar coat everything because he has cancer and is sick. He says the hardest part of having cancer is giving up all hope of survival and succumbing to the fact that you might not live to tell your story.
