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Songs that are REALLY about Drugs


Farin

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There are tons of songs that are 'maybe' or even 'probably' about drugs, but in most cases it's open for interpretation and often denied by the artists ("Purple Haze", "Brain Stew" et al.)

So, what songs do you know that are really, 100%, drug related?

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Junkhead - Alice in Chains

Last night was 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

What's my drug of choice?

Be high, convince them to buy

[smaller]I'm remembering these lyrics based on memory, so they might be wrong[/smaller]

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That Smell - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Cocaine - Jackson Browne (not the Clapton song)

Family Tradition - Hank Williams Jr

Because I Got High - Afroman

Don't Bogart Me - The Fraternity of Man

The Shanty Song - Jonathon Edwards

Did you even mean classic rock songs? Because there are tons of absolute odes to drugs.

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Sweet Jane

By The Velvet Underground!

how's that about drugs?

Does alcohol count? there's a lot of drinkin' songs :jester:

some people even think alcohol is one of the more worse drugs around (see "The Irony of it All" above)

maybe a "Drinking song" doesn't really fit in here, but if you know one about alcohol abuse then I'd like to hear it :)

another example:

The Needle and the Damage Done ~ Neil Young

I caught you knockin' at my cellar door,

I love you baby can I have some more?

Oh, the damage done.

I hit the city and I lost my band,

I watched the needle take another man.

Gone, gone, the damage done.

I sing the song because I love the man,

I know that some of you don't understand.

Milk blood to keep from runnin' out.

I've seen the needle and the damage done,

a little part of it in everyone,

but every junkie's like a settin' sun.

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