”I came of age and I found a girl in a Tuscaloosa bar
She cleaned me out and hit it on the sly
I tried to kill the pain, I bought some wine and hopped a train
Seemed easier than just waitin’ around to die”
Ryöstön seurauksena joudutaan vankilaan ja ulospääsyn jälkeen tutustutaan hyvään ystävään, jonka nimi on kodeiini.
”’Thrown like a star in my vast sleep
I’m opening my eyes to take a peep
To find that I was by the sea
Gazing with tranquility
’Twas then when the hurdy gurdy man
Came singing songs of love
Then when the hurdy gurdy man
Came singing songs of love”
Psykedeelinen tämä ainakin on, vaikkei mitään suoria viittauksia huumeisiin olekaan…
”This is a song with a message,
I want you to heeeeed my warning.
Wanna tell you all a story, about this chick I know.
They call her Amphetamine Annie, and she’s always shovelin’ snow.
I sat her down and told her, I told her crystal clear
I don’t mind you gettin’ high but there’s one thing you should fear
Your mind might think it’s flyin’ baby on those little pills
But you ought to know it’s dyin’, cause – speed kills!”
Annie vetää piriä vaikka kuinka yrittää sanoa ei.
”Got (a letter) up this morning how do you reckon it read?
Red blue and green whoooo all through my head
Licked the stamps saw a movie dropped the stamp
I ain’t got no blues no more I said
Put me up thinkin’ a postman’s groovy
I ain’t I ain’t got the blues no more I said………
Well send me with a letter lord drop me with a telegram I said
My baby walked just like she did
Walking on hard-boiled eggs with a…she can steal em….
I ain’t blue o more I said
Lord one jumped up lord the other one quackin’
Yeah she got those great big drums sticking out Whoooo
Big chicken legs beat when she walks flappin’ down the street where I live”
Eiköhän tässä jotain hapokasta ole nappailtu.
”Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.”
Hapokasta.
En välttämättä suoranaisesti löydä tästä mitään huumeviittauksia, mutta tämäkin on mainittu huumebiisiksi. Osaako joku sanoa, että miksi?
”How does it feel when the day is over
How does it feel when the dark comes down
How does it feel when your room is a black sea
How does it feel when you’re scared by the dark
How does it feel to feel
How does it feel to feel
How does it feel when a shadow moves you
How does it feel rushes by your bed
How does it feel when it finally holds you
How does it feel when you’re thinking your dead”
Päänsisäistä matkustelua.
Tässä laulussa tehdään selväksi dealerin ja pusherin ero. Karusti yleistäen toinen kauppaa ruohoa ja toinen kuolemaa.