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“Give Me Novacaine” is about Jesus of Suburbia wanting to take drugs to relieve stress from his life and asking for reassurance from his alter ego St. Jimmy.

The instrumentality goes slow throughout the song with the music exploding in the choruses. The lyrics see a lonely Jesus of Suburbia asking for help and then raging with ‘St. Jimmy’ who eventually turns to novacaine to numb the pain.

If seen from the perspective of St. Jimmy being a figment of the Jesus of Suburbia’s imagination, this song could be about Jesus trying to suppress his own personality so he can become St. Jimmy, which is the personality he wants to be.

The title, derivates from the local anesthetic drug Procaine, used primarily to reduce the pain of intramuscular injection of penicillin, and it is also used in dentistry. Owing to the ubiquity of the trade name Novocain, in some regions, procaine is referred to generically as novocaine.

The song segues to the next track, “She’s A Rebel”, without pausing.

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