Drug Songs!!! :-)

[bhatta]

I am a JJ Cale fan.... Big time...
Cocaine is already covered here..
Final album of the man is Roll On, the title song is great in the context...

My personal favourite is Days Go By, as below

When you light that funny cigarette
Would you pass it back to me?
I'm feeling a little down and out
And it'll keep me company
I'm just a long lost sinner
Living life here on the line
I'll give it right back to you
I know it's not really mine
Now don't put it out, not right yet
It's burning pretty good
Maybe I'll have one more toke
D'you think I should?
Ooh, days go by
I just sit around and get real high
Ooh, what a glow
I just hang out, they come and go

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=#&ved=2ahUKEwic2oiMnvP1AhU8T2wGHW7MCtMQ8DV6BAgNEAM&usg=AOvVaw0VTJzWxrN8ZFOD4xbU2nov

 

[PelliX]

read the article... it's not about heroin... it's about a girl... although, a couple girls fight over who it's about...

Well, I've heard both Mick and Keef explain that it had a dual backdrop, as it were. Sure it's about a girl, if that's what you want to hear...

Next surprise, Mr Brownstone was actually not GnR's tour manager... at least, he may have been for part of the band....

 

[Max Gahne]

That good old fashioned Medicated Goo

 

[december]

TOOL - Rosetta Stoned

"Ten to 2am, X, yogi DMT and a box of Krispy Kremes, in my 'need to know' pose just outside of Area 51. Contemplating the whole 'chosen people' thingy when a flaming stealth banana split the sky like one would hope, but never expect to see in a place like this, doing right angle turns on a dime and landing right at my Birkenstocks and me yelping 'holy fuckin shit'!..."

 

[Lo-Tek]

Of course the same album had the 7 minute opus "Heroin" too.

I am a jjj Cale fan.... Big time...
Cocaine is already covered here..
Final album of the man is Roll On, the title song is great in the context...

+1. One of my all time favorites.

 

[Trumpet Rider]

Lots of good drug songs out there, most of them written by Hoyt Axton.

Like this one.

 

[Trumpet Rider]

Not to mention this one

 

[SkyMonkey]

 

[SkyMonkey]

 

[SkyMonkey]

SPIES

I hear you knockin'. I hear yer knockin' I hear you knocking!
I hear you knockin' ha! Ha! Ha! Heh! Heh! Heh!
I'm the pied piper won't cha follow me ????
Her handbag will suffer!
The man shaking watching us!!!
Almost every day there is damage
Baby-sit
Plucky old lady!
A funeral wiv her block of flats.
A big result!
Blows to the head.
Hey pensioner, can this here place live?
Accept living!
To be or not 2b,
Doesn't matter,
Every night I go to sleep,
I have a wet dream,
Her frosted gob,
Spat out the ruderies
Yob! yob! yob!
You can stick your fuckin'
Jab! jab! jab! in the arm !!!!
In the arm there's no harm
In the arm there's no harm
In the arm there's no harm
In the arm there's no harm
Rot! rot!
That's all you got,
Not a lot it's all you've got!
And
They all come in,
Two by two,
Buy two and get one free,
Three for four
Five, six, seven, more
Cheque's in the post
Bodies on the floor
I use the chimney
Never use the door!
(alright! I'm finished!)
A funeral wiv 'er block of flats
I hear you knockin'
But you can't come in !!!
I hear you knockin'
But you can't come in,
No! no! no! no! no! no!
I hear you knocking
I hear you!
I hear you knocking !!!!!!!

 

[SkyMonkey]

Bad News (feat. Brian May)
Drink 'till I die

Give me another drink Mr Bartender
If you don't I'm going to stick your dick in a blender
'Cause I, woah I
I'm gonna drink till I die!

All I wanna do is drink as much as I can
That's why I'm a member of a heavy metal band
'Cause I, woah I
I'm gonna drink till I die!
I'm gonna drink till I die!

Lager makes me happy, vodka makes me mean
I'm a heavy metal, drinking, driving, alcohol machine
Listen to me drinking, drinky drinky drink
Listen to me when I go "Bleauuurgh!!!"

But I, woah I
I'm gonna drink till I die!
I'm gonna drink till I die!

I get up in the morning, drink a bottle of gin
Forty pints of lager and a Babycham
'Cause I, woah I
I'm gonna drink till I die!
I'm gonna drink till I die!

 

[SkyMonkey]

 

[PelliX]

Great song, lifelong PF fan here. That one isn't about drugs, actually. It's about a vague memory Dave has of seeing a UFO as a child. As it outlined in the lyrics he had a fever and thought he saw something flying in the sky. This memory stuck with him and he eventually wrote that song. Of course it was made a little more ambigious lyrically, but that was actually the story behind it.

 

[SkyMonkey]

Not songs, but clips from my favourite movie (seen it 25+ times!).
Withnail & I is the darkest comedy I know of.

Pt.1 The Camberwell Carrot.



Pt.2 Political Decision.



The whole film!

 

[ricksdisconnected]

oh thats a good one bro. forgot about that one. the Stones and Buddy guy both do a good version of this one too.

 

[ricksdisconnected]

oh thats a good one bro. forgot about that one. the Stones and Buddy guy both do a good version of this one too.

if i may.........

 

[Dogs of Doom]

Not songs, but clips from my favourite movie (seen it 25+ times!).
Withnail & I is the darkest comedy I know of.

Pt.1 The Camberwell Carrot.



Pt.2 Political Decision.



The whole film!

no politics... ...

oh well youtube censored you...



both videos... (bottom 2)

 

[SkyMonkey]

no politics... ...

oh well youtube censored you...

Well it's not politics in that sense obviously! The film is set in 1969.
The "Political Decision" that Danny the Dealer postulates is that of getting high.

From the script:

Marwood: Give me a Valium, I'm getting the FEAR!
Danny: [very calmly] You have done something to your brain. You have made it high. If I lay 10 mls of diazepam on you, it will do something else to your brain. You will make it low. Why trust one drug and not the other? That's politics, innit?
Marwood: I'm gonna eat some sugar.
[he goes to the kitchen]
Danny: I recommend you smoke some more grass.
Marwood: No way, no fucking way.
Danny: That is an unfortunate political decision. Reflecting these times.
Withnail: What are you talking about, Danny?
Danny: Politics, man. If you're hanging onto a rising balloon, you're presented with a difficult decision - let go before it's too late or hang on and keep getting higher, posing the question: how long can you keep a grip on the rope? They're selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man. The greatest decade in the history of mankind is over. And as Presuming Ed here has so consistently pointed out, we have failed to paint it black.


The links work in the UK though.
No censorship here.
But then half the stuff the Americans link is unavailable here

 

[SkyMonkey]

Great song, lifelong PF fan here. That one isn't about drugs, actually. It's about a vague memory Dave has of seeing a UFO as a child. As it outlined in the lyrics he had a fever and thought he saw something flying in the sky. This memory stuck with him and he eventually wrote that song. Of course it was made a little more ambigious lyrically, but that was actually the story behind it.

That all sounds plausible, but obviously not really in keeping with the story of The Wall concept album.
Hence the re-write. Many songs start off as one thing and become another.
The working title for Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes' was 'People Are Turning To Gold', which bears no relation to the finished song.



Nothing ambiguous about some of the Comfortably Numb lyrics though:

"Okay (okay, okay, okay)
Just a little pinprick
There'll be no more, ahhh-ahh-ahhh
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go"

 

[Redders]