NUMB (T. Kerns) 

This is an aggressive barn burner. Rob 'Boom Boom' Cornouyer comes crashing in like a herd of amphetamine filled elephants.
Thematically it's a bit of a jumble. Famous for nothing and movie of the weak is in reference to our worship of empty celebrity. There was a time where our heroes were people who had achieved great things with amazing skills. Now magazine covers are filled with people who have very little experience in being amazing or achieving much of anything.
This song is under constant criticism for drug references. Sister Morphine is a Stones reference and is more metaphoric than anything. I'm not actually suggesting we all take morphine and novocaine to numb ourselves to life's problems. It's more like I miss the days when my heroes were great singers or actors not heiresses and amateur porn actors. it's like saying if I have to see one more Paris Hilton story I will gouge my eyes out with a dull spoon. Instead I would rather numb myself to it with television and video games or whatever. Social morphine/novocaine.
Ellis came up with an idea to have conversational voices building and building at the tail end of the 3rd verse into the final choruses. You can hear them over the 'She talks and she talks and she talks....' section. They grow and grow til finally 'Ah Shut Up!' Like the voices in your head getting louder and louder. Or mind numbing magazine covers.
Like Jeff Buckley once said, 'People magazine and Cuervo Tequila both induce failure.' He was a wise, wise man.

Wake up! 
Famous for nothing
Get down!
Just a Movie Of The Weak
Get off!
She never says a thing but she talks and she talks and she talks
She won't shut up

Wake up! 
Hit the ground running
Get down! 
Take it lying down
Get off!
Try to get away but she comes and she comes and she cums
She won't go away

Outta my sight I'm outta my mind
Don't look back it's far from over
Until I find my way out of it
Until I find my way I'm callin'

Sister, Sister Morphine
Take me in your arms and tell me I won't feel a thing
I'm callin'
Sister, Sister Novacaine
I need your vampire kiss to come and suck out all this pain
I wanna be numb

Wake up!
Wake me when it's over
Get down!
Singin' in the pain
Get off!
Try to run away but she goes and she goes and she goes
She won't ever stop

Pre chorus

Chorus

Wake up!
Famous for nothing
Get down! 
Just a Movie Of The Week
Get off!
She never says a thing
But she talks and she talks and she talks and she talks and she talks and she talks and she talks
Ah shut up!

Chorus