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Songs About Drug Addiction

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    #32
    jester77
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    K's Choice - not an addict was the first song that came to mind

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfPhpR0CXec


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    #33
    jester77
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    Kid Loco's - Cocaine Diana is another

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdXQ3Zy3Zzk


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    #34
    Tabnabs
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBU3pzy7is


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7EpSirtf_E


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIIEbrMXs20


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    #35
    UrbanSprawl
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    Didn't ever think much what sugar kane was about,damm fine tune though.Its a an easy assumption to think its about Cocaine but digging around a bit more I read that Marilyn Monroes character in some like it hot was called Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk. Reading the lyrics you could interpret the song such.Sugar Kane does not seem to be a well known slang word for cocaine either.


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    #36
    Lithium93_
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    Guns N' Roses Coma & Bad Obsession.


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    #37
    Jimmy Garlic
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    #38
    jimbobaloobob
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    RHCP Snow

    Guns n Roses MR Brownstone

    Black Sabbath Snowblind


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    #39
    refusetolose
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    The Only Ones - Another Girl , Another Planet


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    #40
    jimbobaloobob
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    H R puff n stuff.

    Puff the magic dragon wasnt really a dragon;)


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    #41
    selectamatic
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    Surprised this wasn't already mentioned: Follow me by uncle kracker


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    #42
    Second Toughest in_the Freshers
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    #43
    mansize
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    How do you determine whether the song is about drug addiction and not just drug use?


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    #44
    AllGunsBlazing
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    The Doors - Crystal Ship.


    Although some contend it's a love song dedicated to an old girlfirend.

    When you think about it practically every other song from that era of music seems to have some drug reference woven into it.


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    #45
    tomofson
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    UrbanSprawl wrote: »
    Didn't ever think much what sugar kane was about,damm fine tune though.Its a an easy assumption to think its about Cocaine but digging around a bit more I read that Marilyn Monroes character in some like it hot was called Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk. Reading the lyrics you could interpret the song such.Sugar Kane does not seem to be a well known slang word for cocaine either.

    Not trying to start an argument or nothing but I think "Kane" for cocaine is about as obvious as it gets.


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    #46
    Libadour
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    #47
    UrbanSprawl
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    tomofson wrote: »
    Not trying to start an argument or nothing but I think "Kane" for cocaine is about as obvious as it gets.

    No worries,I cant tell definitively from any search I have done on google and neither can these folks but the Marilyn explanation does seem to the most fitting when you read the lyrics!

    http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/48704/


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    #48
    Jimmy Garlic
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    Surprised nobody has posted this yet...



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    #49
    UrbanSprawl
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Surprised nobody has posted this yet...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

    Its not about drug addiction,its about someone dying and the drugs dont work any more.


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    #50
    Gmol
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    Got to give it up . Thin Lizzy


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    #51
    Ken Tucky
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Surprised nobody has posted this yet...


    This song is about his mother dying of cancer apparently


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    #52
    Fuzzy Clam
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    John Lennon - Cold Turkey


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    #53
    jma
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    Damien Dempsey - Party On

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57LS8MyY2hE


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    #54
    UrbanSprawl
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kiBOVyWAg



    I've been smoking up weed
    I've been sipping on lean
    everything that I touch
    Becomes apart of of me
    ****ing love you so much
    That I know you can see


    Got to keep your head up when your down
    Hard enough to keep both feet on the ground

    Look who wrote a little song
    Didn't make it too long
    Difference between
    What's right and what's wrong
    My life turned out great
    It's a catastrophe
    In my parents house
    Watching rick and morty

    Single 2016
    https://www.youtube.com/user/grungepants /// Dublin, Ireland


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    #55
    Anesthetize
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    Ken Tucky wrote: »
    This song is about his mother dying of cancer apparently
    I've yet to find a definitive answer for this. Some sources report that Richard wrote it about his drug addiction in the mid-90s, and he did a lot of drugs. Other sources report that it was inspired by his father dying (not his mother). The song itself is ambiguous, which leads me to believe that it's a combination of the two.


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    #56
    Olishi4
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    Hurt - Nine Inch Nails


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    #57
    UrbanSprawl
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    Anesthetize wrote: »
    I've yet to find a definitive answer for this. Some sources report that Richard wrote it about his drug addiction in the mid-90s, and he did a lot of drugs. Other sources report that it was inspired by his father dying (not his mother). The song itself is ambiguous, which leads me to believe that it's a combination of the two.

    You could be right actually..this is what wiki has to say.

    Lead singer Richard Ashcroft wrote the song in early 1995. He briefly mentioned it in an interview at the time, relating it to his drug usage: "There's a new track I've just written [...] It goes 'the drugs don't work, they just make me worse, and I know I'll see your face again'. That's how I'm feeling at the moment. They make me worse, man. But I still take 'em. Out of boredom and frustration you turn to something else to escape

    But the lyrics themselves are 'the drugs don't work, they just make YOU worse' so maybe it was modified for the radio.


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    #58
    UrbanSprawl
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxLZMnVygc


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    #59
    Rothko
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzDLUXN6hAM


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    #60
    drugstore cowboy
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    UrbanSprawl wrote: »
    You could be right actually..this is what wiki has to say.

    Lead singer Richard Ashcroft wrote the song in early 1995. He briefly mentioned it in an interview at the time, relating it to his drug usage: "There's a new track I've just written [...] It goes 'the drugs don't work, they just make me worse, and I know I'll see your face again'. That's how I'm feeling at the moment. They make me worse, man. But I still take 'em. Out of boredom and frustration you turn to something else to escape

    But the lyrics themselves are 'the drugs don't work, they just make YOU worse' so maybe it was modified for the radio.

    For the demo Richard sang "They just make me worse"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxtpDqepGDk


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    #61
    UrbanSprawl
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    Not about addiction per se ..
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f-BUt0Eywg


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