Bleeding through a tourniquet smile

created by Kung

(idea) by Kung (6.9 mon) (print) ? I like it! Fri Aug 04 2000 at 6:47:41

Lyric from the song machinehead from 16 stone by Bush. this is what it means to me.

A tourniquet is an emergency treatment for horrific injuries with severe haemorrhaging. Basically you take that horrible lacerated bloody mess and wrap it up as tight as you can. Pushing it down in on itself and hiding it under layer after layer of clean white bandages, making sure that nothing can be seen on the pristine surface of the horror underneath.

But if something rips that wound open again down there underneath all those layers, you may start bleeding through your tourniquet. The scarlet stain blossoming flower-like across the white surface. Then you know that something is very very wrong under there somewhere.

Of course not all wounds are physical. Some of us suffer emotional trauma - injuries to the soul. Then maybe you can use a smile as a tourniquet and bind everything up behind a cheerful countenance. And then you will look fine until you start bleeding through your tourniquet smile.

The three fatal knife targets above the shoulders	The wound that won't heal	everyone needs an angry love story	internal bleeding
eight-ball hemorrhage	Tourniquet	Naked teenage girl	Help! My money is full of cocaine!
Sweet 16 and never been kissed	I am the Walrus	Machinehead	Is religion an emotional crutch?
I'm pregnant	Everything Zen	Countenance	unfettered
bloody mess	hydrogenated oil	Fire in the Lake	machine shop
She grew a little older, while he was telling her	Religion is a crutch for weak people	Oedipus Rex and the Existential dilemma	Bush

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