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WHAT DOES "REHABILITATED" MEAN?

Looking back at much of the things that have been posted on this website over the last two years, dating back to the time period when a long term relationship began falling apart. There has certainly been a lot of anger.  I see the words of a man who was in an incredible amount of pain. A man who was looking for a target to blame for that pain. And all I can think of is the scene near the end of The Shawshank Redemption when Red is finally released from prison: "Rehabilitated?.. I don't have any idea what that means...  I know what you think it means... To me it's just a made up word... There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then. A young stupid kid... I wanna talk to him. I wanna try to talk some sense into him. Tell him the way things are. But I can't... I gotta live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word."

"DANDELIONS" by HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS


Part of Pop Punk Radio Show's Episode 33 Playlist: link
 
I've waited so long to be swept out with the tide 
I burned up my youth playing it loose 
Just trying to survive 
I sold my tears and I paid my dues 
I faced my fears and I sang the blues 
I sang for you 
 
When there's no one left to love 
And we've all turned to dust 
We float like dandelions 
and ravage everything we touch 
When there's no one left to trust 
And we're all out of luck 
We grow like dandelions 
and ravage everything we touch 
 
I've been hated so long in these cold and lonely nights 
I ran from my past hoping it'd last 
Frozen here in time 
I sold my soul and I lost my way 
I spilled my blood and you rode my wave 
You dug my grave
 
When there's no one left to love 
And we've all turned to dust 
We float like dandelions 
and ravage everything we touch 
When there's no one left to trust 
And we're all out of luck 
We grow like dandelions 
and ravage everything we touch
 
We all turn 
We all turn to dust