Songs about Heroin and Songs about Crack (and Cocaine)

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starting point for an article I want to write: The Definitive Guide to Songs about Heroin, but possibly expand it to include Crack Cocaine.

so far:

Heroin:
FBI - Donald D
The Killing - The Ragga Twins
Wipe the Needle - The Ragga Twins
whole of the Velvet Underground + Nico - the Velvet Underground + Nico
King Heroin - Jazzy Jeff
Sister Morphine - the Rolling Stones
Brown Sugar - the Rolling Stones
The Needle & The Damage Done - Neil Young
Smack My Bitch Up - the Prodigy (admittedly, a weak inclusion)
Junkie Nurse - Royal Trux
Golden Brown - the Stranglers
Jesus Shooting Heroin - the Flaming Lips
Chinese Rocks - the Ramones

Crack/Cocaine:
White Lines - Grand Master Flash & the Furious 5
Night of the Living Baseheads - Public Enemy
My Brother's A Basehead - De La Soul
Cocaine Computer - Trans Am
MTV Makes Me Want To Smoke Crack - Beck
Get Your Mother Off The Crack - Milk D
Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield

more please!!!!

― Nik (Nik), Monday, 28 April 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Gimme No Crack--by whoever did it (someone will know)

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 28 April 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Shinehead? The recollection is lost in the mist of marijuana haze.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 28 April 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

the Shinehead song is "Gimme No Crack" (probably his best - certainly the only one I can remember!)

Heroin - jesus, there are so many songs about it, these just off the top of my head:

Spacemen 3 - Call the Doctor, probably a bunch of others. (I know the lines in "Walkin With Jesus" were specifically changed to be *less* about heroin)
James Brown - King Heroin
Funkadelic - Super Stupid (about cocaine AND heroin!), Loose Booty
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 April 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Heroin (is so passé)
The Dandy Warhols - Not if you were the last junkie on earth

Cocaine
Adult - Blank eyed white nose

All
Queens of the Stone Age "Feel good it of the summer"

― Sami (Sami), Monday, 28 April 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Alice in Chains - Heroin
Wasted Youth - We Were on Heroin
Everclear - Heroin Girl
Boy George - You Are My Heroin
The Queers - We'd Have a Riot Doing Heroin
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water ("sail on silver girl")

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 April 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Dr John - Junko Partner
(heroin)

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Eric Clapton - "Cocaine"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 28 April 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

that's a J.J. Cale song, right?

― hstencil, Monday, 28 April 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Michael Head & the Strands - X Hits The Spot (and, indeed the whole album)
Shack - Streets of Kenny

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

More songs about cocaine/crack:

De La Soul - Say No Go, More Than U Know
Ice Cube - Bird in the Hand
Wu-Tang - C.R.E.A.M. ("...was a fiend/for crack and weed/the combination made my eyes bleed"), many many others about the coke trade

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 April 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Dilinger - cocaine in my brain

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Nik, you might want to search for old threads on these. On one of those I mentioned:

Renegade Soundwave - "Cocaine Sex"

also,
Happy Mondays - "Cut 'em Loose Bruce"
it's got the line: 'Cut 'em loose Bruce, Producer Pass him the glass and the foil And give him a boost-poof'

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 April 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Steely Dan: "Kid Charlemagne," "Time Out of Mind," "Glamor Profession," probably several more but those are the first ones that come to mind: Time Out of Mind is essential on any heroin-songs mixtape

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 28 April 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Who's Got the Crack? -- Moldy Peaches
Mr. Brownstone -- Guns'N'Roses
Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Guitar Strings -- Lucinda Williams
CCKMP (Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain) & South Nashville Blues -- Steve Earle

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Monday, 28 April 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

no offense, but many years prior were these recorded versions:

James Booker: Junko Partner
Holy Modal Rounders: Junko Partner

(then the song went into the mainstream so to speak .... )

Charas: Happy Heroin (new composition but only on garageband.com)

Dave Van Ronk: Cocaine

Kaleidoscope: Cocaine Annie (and her cocaine cat)

What about tangential riffs like

Traffic: Dealer

There's a raunch rugged blues I heard recently, actually a heartbreaker, too, called "Crackhouse Whore" ... but I can't just now find out who wrote it

(or should I ask, did you just want rock n roll versions -- ???

― bflaska, Monday, 28 April 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

more junk songs : "hungry boys" by blue oyster cult, "codine" by buffy st marie/lotsa others, "waiting round to die" - townes van zandt, "junk" by paul mccartney (well probably not really), "1 track mind" & "chinese rocks" & pretty much any other song by johnny thunders & the heartbreakers

― dz (doorag), Monday, 28 April 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"lonely junkie" - peter stampfel & the bottlecaps

― dz (doorag), Monday, 28 April 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

some song i forget the name of by the velvet underground

― dz (doorag), Monday, 28 April 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Shirley Caesar: King Heroin (gospel version, she's an ordained minister, I believe, but music is her ministry)

Little Feat: Snakes on Everything (about cocaine hallucinations)

― bflaska, Monday, 28 April 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"scag" - archie shepp

― dz (doorag), Monday, 28 April 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

champion jack dupree: junker's blues (1949?)

chick webb: wacky dust (1938)

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Roky Erickson, "Heroin"
Warren Zevon, "Carmelita"
Johnny Cash, "Cocaine Blues"

― mte, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

My mistake: it is not
Kaleidoscope: Cocaine Annie (and her cocaine cat)

but Cocaine Lil (and her cocaine cat)

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"the needle & the spoon" by lynyrd skynyrd, did someone already say that one

― d (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe "just like darts" by the real kids is about using dope too, can't tell

― d (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"OD" by atomic rooster

― dz (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe "sick of being sick" by the damned

― dz (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Bert Jansch: Needle of Death

Pattie Smith: Dancing Barefoot

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"hand of doom" - black sabbath

― dz (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(this one is so so so funny, you might wet your pants if you hear it, but i found their lyrics online)

Snoot Full of Snow
by Allen & Grier (1963)

Whacka-whack-doo whacka-whacka-doo
Whack-whack a-whack whack whack
Ooh!

A-dope dope dope dope dope-ope-ee-oh
Reef- reef- reefer snoot full of snow
Op- op- op- op- op-opium
Goofball goofball

A-dope dope dope dope dope-ope-ee-oh
Reef- reef- reefer away we go
Op- op- op- op- op-opium
Fly up high with me

I want to turn it on with you
Inside my cozy den
You know, you're my hero
You're my heroine
Huh!
A-rot rot rot rot rot-a-lee-ot
A-beep beep beep beep sniff of pot
A-boop boop boop boop boop-oop-ee-oop
Morphine morphine

A-rot rot rot rot rot-a-lee-ot
A-beep beep beep beep mainline shot
A-boop boop boop boop boop-oop-ee-oop
Dialated eye

Doo whacka doo whacka doo whacka doo whacka
Doo whacka doo whacka doo
Drunk!
Doo whacka doo whacka doo whacka doo whacka
Doo whacka doo whacka doo
Junk!
Doo whacka doo whacka doo whacka doo whacka
Doo whacka doo whacka doo
Kicks!
Doo whacka doo whacka doo whacka doo whacka
Doo whacka doo whacka doo
Take a fix!
You're my spoon of sugar
And you're my poppy seed
Let's connect together
Inhaling loco weed

Cud- cud- cud- cud- cuddle-ee-poo
A trifle mill town just won't do
Kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss-a-lee-poo
Cocaine is good for you

Tea for two and two for tea
A horse for you and a monkey for me
Euphoria and ecstasy
Alone, together

Hug hug hug hug huddle-ee-wug
Sit around and drag that drug
Vo vo vo vo vo-vo-dee-oh
I hope the cops don't know
A-bo-ing!

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

>>>James Booker: Junko Partner
Holy Modal Rounders: Junko Partner<<<

...and The Clash : Junco Partner, and also Koka Kola

Gun Club : She's Like Heroin To Me

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

David Lindley: Methlab Boyfriend

("He's got a shao-lin tiger tatooed on each arma
(something, something, something) he's in control of his karma"

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"opium" - brother love, "too much action" - space dust (blowing my own trumpet here or rather beatin my own drum, i played on both those & they are really great)

― dz (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

(& do not glorify or endorse hard dope use in any way unless you interpret them that way which would be yr own fault0

― dz (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Leadbelly: Take a Whiff on Me

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Check out the PUNKS ON DRUGS compilation... sorem really good tunes like:
Chinese Rocks
Too Much Junkie Business
I'm Addicted
Cocaine
LSD
Amphetamine Blue
etc...

― order some disorder, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

PUNKS ON DRUGS TRACK LIST:

Pills - New York Dolls
Cocaine - Urban Dogs
Chinese Rocks - Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
Amphetamine Blue - Fallen Angles
I Like Drugs - The Simpletones
LSD - Chron Gen
My Baby Takes Valium - Family Fodder
One Track Mind - Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
Speed Kills - Urban Dogs
Killertime - UK Subs
Smoke (Skin Up For Jesus) - Creaming Jesus
Waiting For The Man - Eater
Too Much Junkie Business - The Heroes
Get Adicted - The Adicts
DF 118 - UK Subs
Secret Agent - Broken Bones
Suicide Bag - Action Pact
The Mess - Newtown Neurotics
New Town - The Slits
The Beast - The Only Ones

― order some disorder, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The Memphis Jug Band: Cocaine Habit Blues (1930)

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Found this site out there (complete with lyrics):

songs about drugs

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

What about Blue Cheer: "Amphetamine Gazelle"

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

that's by Mad River, dude.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

also it would appear to be about amphetamine.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Flamin Groovies - "Slow Death"

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Blue Cheer - "Doctor Please"
"well i don't have no money, man/but i been here before..." - ha ha that kills me

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Cradle Of Thorns: Cocaine 4 Breakfast
(likely an update of the old folk song "Whiskey for Breakfast")

* * * * * * * * * *

Doora, Mad River!

Re: "Amphetamine Gazelle"

also it would appear to be about amphetamine.
-- unknown or illegal user (doora...), April 29th, 2003.

Doora, you are so very, very correct.

There were more songs than these in that era, too, and I'm dredging my memory banks.

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Nomeansno: A Little Too High (cocaine)

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

heroin: plastic ono band- 'cold turkey'
the summer hits- 'preference'
the la's- 'there she goes' (possibly)
felt- 'under a pale light'
denim- 'glue and smack'
go-kart mozart- 'plead with the man'
the tyde- 'crystal canyons'

crack: funkmaster wizard wiz- 'crack it up' (sample lyrics: 'first came dope/and then came smoke/then good herb/was the word/then lsd/then black beau-ty/then came sesss/and buddha bless/but all you girls and guys we got a new get-high/come on now/crack it up (crack, crack it up)/we got to put in in the pocket (put, put it in the pock-et...))

cocaine: fred neil- 'sweet cocaine'
further- 'they said it couldn't happen here...and it didn't'
bob dylan- 'quinn, the eskimo' (joke, sorry...)

― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Pat Orchard: Night Train (heroin)

― bflaska, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Busy Man" by DMZ

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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glory box 'intersect'

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Needle and the Damage Done" -- Neil Young
"Heroin Face" -- The Cure
"Running to Stand Still" -- U2

― David A. (Davant), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

TISM "He'll never be an old man river" - OK its not strictly about heroin on its own but it's hilarious. For the benefit of the uninitiated, it starts with the classic line "I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix"... nuff said.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

suede - the living dead

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Another Trux one is "Spike Cyclone".

Also, no mention yet of Sabbath's "Snowblind" or Ace Frehley's "Snowblind" or Steppenwolf's "My Snowblind Friend" and "The Pusher".

Oh and the Eagles' "Life in the Fastlane" and the Grateful Dead's "Casey Jones"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

(or Styx's "Snowblind")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Minny(?)the Moocher(coke, opium) Cab is the first drug song I heard.
Clouldn't Get High (booze, pot, LSD) by the Fugs is the funniest.
Junky Dare,Berkely Heathen Scum (smack),I Wanna be on TV(coke) Fang
Needles(smack) System of a Down

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Needles" is a fuckin GREAT sick-ass song, easily one of my favorite System songs; it's just so gnarly and raw! They have other songs about drug addiction, btw: "Chop Suey!" and "Blue Heaven" fr'instance.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

cocaine
cocaine girl - stage fright(commenly mislabeled as nirvana for some reason)
SNOWBLIND - black sabbath

― Craig Dawson, Friday, 22 April 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Heroin:

The La's - There She Goes

― zeus, Friday, 22 April 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues
Nick Drake also did a song called "Cocaine Blues" though I'm fairly sure it's a cover. I have no idea who did the original. I could be wrong.

Heroin: Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay

― Roz, Friday, 22 April 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I remember someone once saying that Sonic Youth's 'Silver Rocket' was about shooting coke...anyone able to verify?

― Graeme (Graeme), Friday, 22 April 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

The obvious one everybody has missed:
I Get A Kick Out Of You -- Cole Porter (performed by many)

also
Low -- Cracker

― Vornado (Vornado), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Cocaine Decisions - Frank Zappa

― Rand D. Butterstein, Friday, 22 April 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Crack: Master P - Ghetto Dope (contains recipe for making crack)
heroin:
Soul Asylum: Runaway Train (it was originally about drugs but oops, runaway chairties got it for the video)
Soul Asylum: Black Gold
Jenny's on the train again (a bluegrass song)
Nirvana - Molly's Lips (indirectly - references his need to stay clean to be w. Molly)
Alice in Chains - Junkhead, Man in the Box, Hate to Feel, Would (pretty much most of their songs are)
RHCP - Under a Bridge
Neil Young : The Needle and the Damage Done
Rolling Stones : Dead Flowers
Velvet Underground : Heroin
Guns N' Roses : Mr Brownstone
The La's: There She Goes
Dandy Warhols : Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
Sinéad O'Connor and U2 : Heroin
Rancid - Dope Sick Girl
Pink Floyd : Comfortably Numb
Elliot Smith - needle in the Hay
Jane's Addiction - jane says
Elliot Smith - WHite Lady Love you More
Dead Milkmen - Junkie
Dead Milkmen - Scum
Flaming Lips - jesus Shootin Heroin
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Ministry - Just one fix
Red Red Meat - Brain dead
Sonic Youth - Junkie's Promise
Iggy Pop - China Girl
50 Cent - Baltimore Love Song
Blur - Beetlebum
John Lennon - Cold Turkey
Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Needle and the Spoon
The Stranglers : Golden Brown
Wolfsheim : Heroin, She Said
Pink Floyd : Comfortably Numb
Velvet Underground : Waiting for the Man
Lou Reed : Perfect Day

― leslie (leslie), Saturday, 23 April 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Crack Rock Steady - Choking Victim

..the entire Choking Victim catalogue, really.

― the real J., Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

i need drugs - nerco
any union underground song

― dave miller, Saturday, 17 September 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

lithium by nirvana I LIKE IT I'M NOT GONNA CRACK!
UNDER THE BRIDGE RHCP

― andreas, Monday, 28 November 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Ward 21 - Kokaine

A dance hall song from around 2001, I believe? It is abso-fuckin'-lutely hilarious. Whether it's included in the book or not, everybody must hear this song.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Big Stick - "Crack Attack"

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Nirvana - Molly's Lips (indirectly - references his need to stay clean to be w. Molly)
-- leslie (justas...), April 23rd, 2005 1:01 AM.

*cough* cover *cough*

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

third eye blind - semicharmed kind of life

the kids love this one...

― John Jacob, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

Happy Mondays - "Cut 'em Loose Bruce"
it's got the line: 'Cut 'em loose Bruce, Producer Pass him the glass and the foil And give him a boost-poof'

Where Cam got his style

― jcartledge (jcartledge), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Willy Devile "Chieva" from Crow Jane Alley

― tim aubrey, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

The Rolling Stones - "Coming Down Again"
The Clash - "Hateful" & "Koka Kola"
The Black Crowes - "Thorn In My Pride"
Wilco - "A Shot In The Arm"
Van Morrison - "Slim Slow Slider"
Howlin' Wolf - "Spoonful"
Curtis Mayfield - "Freddie's Dead"
Aerosmith - "Rats In The Cellar"

― Mama Roux, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

The Greatful Dead - Casey Jones
David Bowie - Station to Station
Ween - Banana's and Blow

― Erik Baldwin, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

"Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" by Joni Mitchell is a heroin song.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

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― hgh online, Monday, 27 March 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

All heroin Songs:

Metallica - Fuel
K's Choice - Not An Addict (this song is freaking awesome!)
3 Days Grace - (I Hate) Everything About You
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (written by Lennon)
Elliot Smith - Single File
Skinny Puppy - Addiction
Alice In Chains - Chemical Addiction (not actually about any one drug in particular--"I don't know much about heroin but I, I wanna try / Just about everything once before I die)

― Robin Peters, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe, with all that, posts going back almost 3 years... That NO ONE posted Hotel California as being a song about kicking heroin addiction... Read the lyrics if you don't believe me... =D

― Robin Peters, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Girl (Cocaine) - Too Short {1985}

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Cocaine man-Baxter Dury
No coke- Quiero Club ( i don't like drinking coke, give me a blow!)

― Chocolate (chocolate), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

U2's Bad is about a junkie.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

sebadoh's skull? i always assumed it was about H

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

wait, you mean to tell me nobody's mentioned the one song that covers both heroin AND cocaine?!

Laid Back, "White Horse"

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

John Shananigans "Charlie's On The Dancefloor"

and i always thought Kate Bush "And Dream of Sheep" could be interpreted as a song about overdose:

Let me be weak,
Let me sleep
And dream of sheep.

Ooh, their breath is warm
And they smell like sleep,
And they say they take me home.
Like poppies heavy with seed
They take me deeper and deeper.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Savoy Brown--Needle & Spoon (years before Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Forgotten Rebels--Surfin on Heroin
Nervous Germans (U.S.)--Surfing on Heroin (different song)

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Friday, 14 April 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Cop Shoot Cop by Spiritualized is my favorite song about H not done by the VU or crazy Wayne Coyne

that whole album is full of drugged-up lyrics (obvs)

"Just me, my spike in my arm and my spoon" - I Think I'm In Love
"Sometimes have my breakfast right Off of a mirror" - Home of the Brave
etc etc etc

― davelus (davelus), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

how is "Not An Addict" a song about Heroin??
the lyrics start with "Breathe it in and breathe it out and pass it on it's almost out"
just throwing that out there

― davelus (davelus), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:24 (twenty years ago)

skinnyman - Not Bonnie And Clyde

very cracky

― john clarkson, Friday, 14 April 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

All Lit Up- Buckcherry duh!

― crystal420, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

black sabbath- paranoid

― richard leicester, Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

just the thought of how many songs were written on herion..........maybe some of the very best.....?!

― mike w, Saturday, 29 April 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

SKINNY PUPPY - HARSH STONE WHITE

― arsen fikken, Sunday, 30 April 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Has anyone montioned Hurt by the Nine Inch Nails?
Johnny Cash Recently covered this too.
Also Johnny Cash has a few drug songs too.
(and im quite stoned)

― Liam M, Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnsz-Ogji30

― Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Tuesday, 16 February 2010 21:38 (sixteen years ago)

ZZ Top-Brown Sugar

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 22:18 (sixteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

I'm guessing the Stranglers are the only band get two songs about heroin on to Top of the Pops? Simon Bates knows the truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoI3AexiM

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 18:46 (one year ago)

Is 'Into your arms' by Love Positions/Lemonheads about heroin?

― /asarco (AcnalbasacNoom), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 21:27 (one year ago)

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