Päihteet biisien sanoituksissa

[Hipcheck]

Ohessa pari mitä ei vielä ole mainittu.

Van Halen / Take your whiskey home

"Well, my baby, she don't want me around
She said she's tired of watchin' me fall down (He-he-he-yuh!)
She wants a good life, ah! An' all the best
But I like that bottle better than the rest"

Myöhemmällä iällä siirryttiin jo Jazz-tupakkaan:

Van Hagar / Amsterdam

"Lookin' good through the window
Shinin' red and blue light
A little thick in the bottom
But still lookin' alright

Got a pocket full o' money
Got me a long night ahead
Quick stop by the Bulldog
Score me some Panama Red

Oh, wham bam, oh Amsterdam
Stone you like nothin' else can
Woo! Hot damn, roll an Amsterdam
She can't then nothin' else can"

 

[E V]

Alice In Chains äijistä ilmeisesti kaikki käyttivät hepoa aikas paljon. Solisti Layne Staley kuoli heroiinin ja muistaakseni kokan sekoitukseen. (Saattoi olla myös enkelinpölyä, pitääpä koittaa tarkastaa.)
Ohessa AIC:n Junkhead nimisen kappaleen sanat. Biisi löytyy Dirt- albumilta, kyseinen lätty on kokonaisuudessaan aikalailla päihteiden käyttöön liittyvä.

Junkhead

A good night, the best in a long time
A new friend turned me on to an old favorite
Nothing better than a dealer who's high
Be high, convince them to buy

What's my drug of choice?
Well, what have you got?
I don't go broke
And I do it a lot

Seems so sick to the hypocrite norm
Running their boring drills
But we are an elite race of our own
The stoners, junkies, and freaks

Are you happy? I am, man.
Content and fully aware
Money, status, nothing to me
'Cause your life is empty and bare

What's my drug of choice?
Well, what have you got?
I don't go broke
And I do it a lot

You can't understand a user's mind
But try, with your books and degrees
If you let yourself go and opened your mind
I'll bet you'd be doing like me
And it ain't so bad

What's my drug of choice?
Well, what have you got?
I don't go broke
And I do it a lot
Say, I do it a lot!
I do it a lot!
I do it a lot!
Say, I do it a lot!

 

[odwaz]

Niin jos jatketaan tuosta Seattle-/grunge-puolesta, niin onhan Stone Temple Pilots myös kunnostautunut tällä saralla. Esim. hienon Core-levyn kappale Crackerman kertoo aika peittelemättä suoneen tykityksestä ja tripistä. Onhan Scott Weiland ilmeisesti kunnostautunut tässä myöhemminkin ihan tosielämässä.

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Kickin' as I'm tryin' to sleep
I got the mud beaneath my shoes
Rubber band, rubberband
Gun in hand, gun in hand
I wanna use

Trippin' as I'm thinkin'
'Bout a boy, his name was Sue
He's a man, he's man
Crackerman, crackerman
He's a woman too

Roamin', roamin', roam
Get away, gotta get away
And I think I think too much
I don't care, yeah but I don't care
Roamin', roamin', roam
Get away, gotta get away
And I think I think too much

 

[Nikki Goodding]

Mötley Crue - Dancing on glass

Can't find my doctor
My bones can't take this ache
If ya dance with the devil
Your day will come to pay

Downtown
Fuel-injected dreams
Are busting at the seams
Am I in Persia
Or am I just insane?

Downtown, downtown

One foot in the grave
Such a foolish child
For a date with death
Sign the dotted line

I've been thru hell
And I'm never goin' back

To Dancing on Glass

Going way too fast
Gonna burn and crash
Valentine's in London
Found me in the trash
Downtown

Need one more rush
Then I know, I know I'll stop
One extra push
Last trip to the top

Downtown, downtown

Silver spoon and needle
Witchy tombstone smile
I'm no puppet
I engrave my veins with style

I've been thru Hell
And I'm never goin' back
To dancing on glass

Dancin' dancin'

Kickstart my heart kertoo kuulemma siitä kun Nikki heräsi kaksi Adrenaliinipiikkiä törröttäen rinnasta..

 

[Txjokeri]

Dr. Hook

mm.

I Got Stoned And I Missed It

Pöllytyksen vaaroja...

 

[Uleåborgir]

The Beatles: A Day In The Life

Biisin B-osassa Paul laulaa:

Found my coat and grabbed my hat,
Made the bus in seconds flat.
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
and Somebody spoke and I went into a dream.

Kyse on tietty poikain laajalti viljelemästä kannabiksen käytöstä.

Saman biisin alussa John vetää:

He blew his mind out in a car. Viittaa LSD:hen.

 

[clayman]

Megadeth on kyllä jo mainittu, mutta tätä biisiä ei:

MARY JANE

Forgive me father for I have sinned
I'm a child of air, I'm a witch of the wind
And I'm still wide awake... Mary Jane

From the earth, up through the trees
I can hear her calling me
Her voice rides on the breeze
Oh, it's haunting me

No, I can't get away
No, there's no escape
If I know I'm going crazy
I must not be insane

[CHORUS:]
Beware my friends, as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I'm now so you must be
Prepare my friends to follow me

Forgive me father for I have sinned
I'm a child of air, I'm a witch of the wind
Fingers gripped around my brain
No control my mind is lame
I'm in the astral plane, and I'll never be the same
Never, never, never, never, never, never
Never, never, never

[CHORUS:]

It hurts so bad I can't breathe
Prepare to follow me

 

[dali]

Oasiksen musiikista löytyy melko mojova määrä viittauksia erilaisiin päihteisiin. Monissa kappaleissa löytyy lyhyitä viittauksia huumeisiin, kuten get on the bus, get high ynnä muuta, vaikkei biisi itsessään kertoisi päihteiden käytöstä. Tässä vähän listaa aihetta sivuavista Oasiksen biiseistä, jotka nyt ensi-istumalta tulivat mieleen.

Morning glory: All your dreams are made, when you´re chained to a mirror and a razorblade

The Fame: And you may laugh while you sit there sipping your champagne. And they all laugh at your despair sniffing your cocaine. I'm a man of choice in an old Rolls Royce and I'm howling at the moon. Is my happening to deafening for you?


Sunday morning call: When you´re lonely and you start to hear the little voices in your head. You will only sniff away the tears so you can dance ´til the morning light

One way road: Where we gonna be in summertime? And are we gonna see the heavens shine like diamonds in the sky?

Sitten vielä pari muuta mieleen tullutta pätkää:

Soul asylumin kappale Eyes of a child kertoo tarinaa teini-ikäisestä crack-huorasta:

She was just six, when she turned her first trick. Now she´s thirteen and it don´t make her sick. She does lots of crystal and she owns her own pistol. Got a goldfish named Silver and a pimp whose name Rick

Ramones: Born to die in Berlin:

Intoxicated by the orchids abandoned in the garden
Demanding morphine curse my soul is burning
Stranded in the sweet wonderings
breathing the pale moon silver
Torn painted lips tasting the last drops of life

Sometimes I feel like screaming
Sometimes I feel I just can't win
Sometimes I feelin' my soul is as restless as the wind
Maybe I was born to die in Berlin

I sprinkled cocaine on the floor
when no one was watching
I closed my eyes and I let myself sleep
Creeps and dirty bastards,
demons waitin' by my bed
There's no choice or difference,
no one seems to notice

Olisihan näitä päihteistä kertovia biisejä vaikka millä mitalla, mutta eiköhän nämä riitä alkuun.

 

[cosmic_rodeo]

Luulenpa, että Queens of the Stone Agen kappale Feel Good Hit of the Summer käsittelee ainakin jossain määrin erilaisia päihteitä:

Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol

C-c-c-c-c-cocaine
C-c-c-c-c-cocaine
C-c-cocaine
C-c-c-c-c-cocaine

Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol

C-c-c-c-c-cocaine
C-c-c-c-c-cocaine
C-c-cocaine

Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ectasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana,

C-c-c-c-c-cocaine

 

[siesta]

Apulannan kappale "Kännää se pois" kertoo juuri siitä itsestään.

 

[tuuski]

Sörkan Ramones, aka Häiriköt kertoo jotain näissä tekotaiteellisissa raapustuksissaan:

Liimaa Liimaa

Bostik A kolmosta ostin rautakaupasta
Bostik A kolmosta vedän valtsun kassista
Bostik A kolmosta ostin rautakaupasta
Bostik A kolmosta vedän valtsun kassista
Lisää liimaa
Lisää lisää
Liimaa liimaa

Come on

Elämä on ikävää
Elämä on tylsää
Joo niin se on
Maailma on musta
Ei sitä kestä ilman puudutusta
Ei -ei kestäkään
Come on come on mennään liimaa haistamaan

 

[JanJ]

System of a downin Needles on nimeltään jo paljastava. Silti mukahauskaa metaforaa löytyy.

I cannot disguise,
All the stomach pains
And the walking of the cranes
When you, do come out
And you whisper up to me
In your life of tragedy
But I cannot grow
Till you eat the last of me
Oh when will I be free
And you, a parasite
Just find another host
Just another fool to roast
Cause you
My tapeworm tells me what to do
You
My tapeworm tells me where to go
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, hey

 

[Padis]

BigRedBob jo mainitsi kappaleen mutta ei coveria. System Of A Down:in soittamana toimii paljon paremmin ainakin minulle.

What you get and what you see
Things that don't come easily
Feeling happy in my vein
Icicles within my brain

(cocain)

Something blowing in my head
Winter's ice, it soon will spread
Death would freeze my very soul
Makes me happy, makes me cold

(cocain)

My eyes are blind but I can see
The snowflakes glisten on the tree
The sun no longer sets me free
I feel there's no place freezing me

Let the winter sun shine on
Let me feel the frost of dawn
Fill my dreams with flakes of snow
Soon I'll feel the chilling glow

Don't you think I know what I'm doing
Don't tell me that it's doing me wrong
You're the one who's really a loser
This is where I feel I belong

Crystal world with winter flowers
Turns my day to frozen hours
Lying snowblind in the sun
Will my ice age ever come?