Creativity Quote by Eric San

There’s a hard-edged tenderness to this line: it recognizes damage without letting damage become a weapon. “Radiated” is a loaded verb - clinical, impersonal, almost sci-fi - but it lands with the real-world chill of contamination, exposure, fallout. It suggests a person marked by something they didn’t choose, someone transformed by harm in a way that can’t be fully explained to outsiders. The phrase “Even though” does the moral heavy lifting: empathy is granted up front, then immediately bounded.

The second half flips from bodily consequence to social consequence. “Doesn’t mean you get to have that sort of power” is a refusal of the modern temptation to treat suffering as a blank check. San isn’t denying the reality of trauma; he’s policing what people are allowed to do with it. The subtext is about leverage: how victimhood can become currency, how an injury can be repurposed into authority, intimidation, or exemption from accountability.

As a musician’s line, it reads like something forged in scenes where pain is both raw material and performance - where biography gets mythologized and personal catastrophe becomes branding. “That sort of power” is pointedly vague, which makes it feel like a live wire: it could be emotional control in a relationship, moral dominance in a community, or artistic entitlement in a band ecosystem. The intent isn’t to flatten the hurt; it’s to prevent it from reproducing itself. Damage explains you. It doesn’t deputize you.