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Well, I don't want to be the crutch

One step away from down

Well, I don't want to be the crutch

One step away from

So I imagine this song mostly from Wilson's perspective. It's a telling of how Wilson is holding house up, how houses cane holds him up physically but Wilson is his emotional crutch. Every time house has a problem he goes to Wilson and every once in a while Wilson becomes fed up with it, therefore he doesn't want to be the crutch one step away from falling apart.

Man I feel like hell, so come on over

Be a love machine and I could be your friend

Ain't no shame, feel strong for one another

Make a real true color come end to end, then

Goddamn, change of pace

I think you've got a piece of my heart on your face

It's a shame to let it waste

How does it taste?

How does it taste?

The first too lines just express what hilson is, two friends that are literally a love machine feeling like hell. House and Wilson bring out another side of each other and more specifically Wilson brings out the color and empathy in house. I interpret the next few lines as the change of pace being from being friends, some sort of boarder-line homoerotic relationship to anger, jealousy, self sabotage, and all the words in between. Yet through that, house has a part of Wilson's heart, his empathy.

Break it down in pieces, make it simple

'Cause you know damn well that I'm a simple man

All these things go changing like the weather

And they stay that way until the weather man says

One down, gone to waste

I think there's still a piece of that smile on your face

And I would like it erased

There ain't no two ways about it, no

Okay this verse to me says once again their relationship changing constantly from best friends to anger real fast. You can also interpret the first line more like breaking Wilson down, a man who is so weirdly normal. Similar to the heart line, the smile on houses face come from being with Wilson but in cases like ambers death, Wilson wants all that back thinking it's all a waste.

Bring it on then gone, use a lover

Like a cigarette the way that lovers do

One sweet song that starts a little slow and

Then goes on and on and makes you want to

Move around the room in circles

Everybody wants to be you

Try to find my place up on the map

Of all the men you've been through

Dig a little deeper and you'll realize

All I'm building up you're tearing down

First two lines express how house uses and manipulates Wilson. Uses him to feel good then tosses him to the side like a cigarette. Then it shows how Wilson is trying to find a place in houses life considering all his own wives and then all the people house dated or hooked up with. Everything Wilson create for himself or for house is quickly taken down by houses self destructive tendencies.

All you needed was a crutch

One step away from down

And I could never be your crutch

I could break you down

And I don't want to be the crutch

Hey, I don't want to be the crutch

No, I don't want to be the crutch

One step away from

The outro of the song changes from the chorus saying "all you needed was a crutch" and "I could never be your crutch" which is a lie. Wilson to be frank loves being houses crutch. He loves feeling needed and he loves house being needy, they feed into each other is the most tragic and heartbreakingly beautiful way.

And to conclude this lecture, if any of you have any hilson playlists I would love to see them and I'm probably gonna do more if this because no one else wants to hear about this.

My hilson playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2dMOuxvPZS3ydf9Cwbu5za?si=djkPuhrVQgS87IW7LeGMvw&pi=u-NzdGYAGnSnWB

For example: in "The Curse" when Chases dad comes to the hospital. House was trying to find out why Chase hated his dad and Chase said it's easier to expect his dad won't be there than be disappointed and it's clear that hit House really hard. House constantly acts like he doesn't care, distracts, and lies so no one can see through into his personal life and it WORKS because literally everyone in the show thinks he's a sociopathic piece of shit!

Wilson is known for loving everyone but he loves people in the bigger picture and struggles to care about people more individually. For example, his many wives and how they ended or him assuming the worst in house so many times.

But house ignores people at the bigger picture, caring about every single person does him no good although individually he cares about so many people and expresses that to everyone differently. He compliments chase, checks in on Cameron, pushes foreman to be better, and is always there for Wilson and the list continues for his patients and later ducklings too.