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“Limp”, the third track on 1999’s When the Pawn… . Limp is about a woman who’s fed up with her lover gaslighting her. Gaslighting is a term for one person invalidating the complaints of another by calling them irrational or crazy.
Limp specifically refers to a man who wants a “damsel in distress” he wants to be the hero to. In these kinds of a relationships, a man will upset a woman (you want to make me sick) so that she can become dependent on him for support (you want to lick my wounds).

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