Post some songs about OD'ing

Brutuskend

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Inspired by This thread

I'll start with...

Sam Stone
©John Prine

Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

Chorus:
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Mmm....

Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

Repeat Chorus:

Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.

Repeat Chorus
 

djheater

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HEROIN - VELVET UNDERGROUND

I don?t know just where I?m going
But I?m gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
?cause it makes me feel like I?m a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I?ll tell ya, things aren?t quite the same
When I?m rushing on my run
And I feel just like jesus? son
And I guess that I just don?t know
And I guess that I just don?t know

I have made the big decision
I?m gonna try to nullify my life
?cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper?s neck
When I?m closing in on death
And you can?t help me not, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet silly talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don?t know
And I guess that I just don?t know

I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I?d sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor?s suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don?t know
Oh, and I guess that I just don?t know

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it?s my wife and it?s my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I?m better off and dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don?t care anymore
About all the jim-jim?s in this town
And all the politicians makin? crazy sounds
And everybody puttin? everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds

?cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don?t care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that I?m as good as dead
Then thank your God that I?m not aware
And thank God that I just don?t care
And I guess I just don?t know
And I guess I just don?t know
 

djheater

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This song annoys the fvck out of me.

Under the Bridge Lyrics - Red hot chilli peppers

Sometimes I feel
Like I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angels
Lonely as I am
Together we cry

I drive on her streets
'Cause she's my companion
I walk through her hills
'Cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds
And she kisses me windy
I never worry
Now that is a lie

I don't ever want to feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way

It's hard to believe
That there's nobody out there
It's hard to believe
That I'm all alone
At least I have her love
The city she loves me
Lonely as I am
Together we cry

I don't ever want to feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all that way

Under the bridge downtown
Is where I drew some blood
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough
Under the bridge downtown
Forgot about my love
Under the bridge downtown
I gave my life away
 

vshah

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Originally posted by: djheater
This song annoys the fvck out of me.

Under the Bridge Lyrics - Red hot chilli peppers

why does it annoy the fvck outta you? just curious. i really like it...
 

Schadenfroh

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Pink FLoyd "Confortbly numb"

Hello, hello, hello
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?

Come on, come on down,
I hear you?re feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax, relax, relax
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move, but I can?t hear what you?re saying.

When I was a child, I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I?ve got that feeling once again.
I can?t explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.

I have become comfortably numb.

[guitar solo]

I have become comfortably numb.

OK, OK, OK
Just a little pin prick.
There?ll be no more, aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh,
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up, stand up, stand up.
I do believe it's working good.
That?ll keep you going for the show.
Come on, it?s time to go.

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move, but I can?t hear what you?re saying.

When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look, but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child has grown, the dream is gone.

I have become comfortably numb.
 

djheater

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Originally posted by: vshah
Originally posted by: djheater
This song annoys the fvck out of me.

Under the Bridge Lyrics - Red hot chilli peppers

why does it annoy the fvck outta you? just curious. i really like it...

It was played Elventy-billion times when I was in school and I still haven't gotten over it.
 

NTB

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The Pusher - Steppenwolf

You know I've smoked a lot of grass
O'Lord, I've popped a lot of pills
But I mever touched nothin'
That my spirit could kill
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round
With tombstones in their eyes
But th pusher don't care
Ah, if you live or if you die.

God d***, the pusher
God d***, I say the pusher
I said God d***, God d*** the pusher man.

You know the dealer, the dealer is a man
With the love grass in his hand
Oh but the pusher is a monster
Good God, he's not a natural man
The dealer for a nickel
Lord, will sell you lots of sweet dreams
Ah, but the pusher ruin your body
Lord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream.

God d***, the pusher
God d***, I say the pusher
I said God d***, God d*** the pusher man.

Well, now if I were president of ths land
You know, I'd declare total war on the pusher man
I'd cut if he stands,
And I'd shoot him if he'd run
Yes, I'd kill him with my Bible
And my razor and my gun.

God d***, the pusher
God d***, the pusher
I said God d***, God d*** the pusher man.
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Snowblind Friend - Steppenwolf

You say it was this morning when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the pavement with a misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
He only had a dollar to live on 'til next Monday
But he spent it on some comfort for his mind
Did you say you think he's blind?

Someone should call his parents, a sister or a brother
And they'll come to take him back home on a bus
But he'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother
Yeah he'll always be another one of us
He said he wanted Heaven but prayin' was too slow
So he bought a one way ticket on an airline made of snow
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low?
Flyin' low
Dyin' slow
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Nate
 

anxi80

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since velvet underground was mentioned... o.d. is not really the theme of the whole song... but its mentioned in the last part...
Artist: Lou Reed
Album: Transformer
Title: Walk On The Wild Side

Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the u.s.a.

Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her leg and then he was a she
She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side

Candy came from out on the island
In the backroom she was everybody's darling

But she never lost her head
Even when she was given head
She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls go

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo)

Little joe never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay

A hustle here and a hustle there
New york city is the place where they said
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said hey joe, take a walk on the wild side

Sugar plum fairy came and hit the streets
Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat

Went to the apollo
You should have seen him go go go
They said, hey sugar, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
All right, huh

Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was james dean for a day

Then i guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that dash
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls say

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo)
 

Brutuskend

Lifer
Apr 2, 2001
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Snowblind Friend = Steppenwolf


Words and music by Hoyt Axton

You say it was this morning when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the pavement with a misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
He only had a dollar to live on 'til next Monday
But he spent it on some comfort for his mind
Did you say you think he's blind?

Someone should call his parents, a sister or a brother
And they'll come to take him back home on a bus
But he'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother
Yeah he'll always be another one of us
He said he wanted Heaven but prayin' was too slow
So he bought a one way ticket on an airline made of snow
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low?
Flyin' low
Dyin' slow


Edit: Oops, I see NTB beat me to this one!
 

apac

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Ridin' that train
High on cocaine

wait, that songs not about a bad experience :D
 

Rastus

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That Smell -- Lynard Skynard
She Talks To Angels -- The Black Crows
Needle and the Damage Done -- Neil Young
 

Brutuskend

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NEIL YOUNG

"Needle And The Damage Done"

I caught you knockin'
at my cellar door
I love you, baby,
can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, 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 running 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.
 

fredtam

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Guns N' Roses Mr. Brownstone

I get up around seven
Get outta bed around nine
And I don't worry about nothin' no
Cause worryin's a waste of my... time
The show usually starts around seven
We go on stage around nine
Get on the bus about eleven
Sippin' a drink and feelin' fine
Chorus:
We been dancin' with
Mr. Brownstone
He's been knockin'
He won't leave me alone
I used ta do a little
But a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin'
Ta get a little better
Said a little better than before
I used ta do a little
But a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin'
Ta get a little better
Said a little better than before
Chorus
Now I get up around whenever
I used ta get up on time
But that old man
He's a real muthafucker
Gonna kick him on down the line
 

Perknose

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Some damn fine tunes herein. A hearty cyber handshake and a semi-sincere "You're swell!" to the fellow or fellowette who first guesses the singer who made his national debut with this little ditty.

Hint: He makes a pretty strong bird.


Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)


(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in
I got up so tight I couldn't unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in


(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah yeah oh-yeah
 

Brutuskend

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Jefferson Airplane = White Rabbit

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.

When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.

When logic and proportion
Have fallen her sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head,
Feed your head"
 

joinT

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Sublime - Pool Shark

lying in my plasic bed
thinkin how things weren't so cool to me
my baby likes to shoot pool
i like lying naked in my bedroom
tying on the dinosaur
tonight it used to be so cool

now i've got the needle
and i can't bleed but i can't breathe
take it away and i want more and more
one day i'm gonna lose the war

lying in my plasic bed
thinkin how things weren't so cool to me
my baby likes to shoot pool
i like lying naked in my bedroom

tying on the dinosaur
tonight it used to be so cool

now i've got the needle
and i can't shake
but i can't breathe

take it away and but i want more and more
one day i'm gonna lose the war
 

Perknose

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Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

Byrds :)

EDIT: OOPS, bad guess on my part.

(I have it on my H/D too, but by another group)
Not even close yet, Bk! :p
 

chrisms

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Alice in Chains - 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
I do it a lot, yeah
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!