Album Analysis: Psychosis….
“And I see that it makes me anti-everything,
And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin… shed my skin!
Revelation, leading to my psychosis and inspiration,
Digest another hallucination,
Psychosis by recreation!
Happy ’til the next deterioration… psychosis!”
Psychosis is one of the faster, more hard-rocking tunes on Revolution Roulette, and one of the few that I don’t really see, or look for, a second level of meaning in. Instead, Psychosis seems a pretty straight-forward analysis of how entirely too many cults form. As we see in the end….
“I think I’m gonna start up my own religion,
Seems to be the recipe for a new sensation!
Think it’s gonna make a trendy revolution!
Quite the contribution to the unnatural selection!”
Through the course of the song, we see a picture of nihilistic madness and hedonism. A soul consumed by the desire for one new sensation after the other, finally deciding that the only thing left to do is to start his own faith… one probably dedicated to the sort of carnage that he’s been revelling in the thought of all along.
Personally, this is the sort of song that I love for coming up with characters. It’s got the *attitude* that is so critical to creating a memorable villain. One of these days, I’ll build a villain based around this song – I’ve actually toyed with the idea of building an anti-hero based around it. When that day comes, rest assured, he’ll be posted here. 
