Mother Love Bone – Come Bite the Apple

Biisi kertonee MLB:n laulajan Andrew Woodin heroiiniriippuvuudesta. Omena toimii tässä biisissä heroiinin metaforana. Wood kuolikin yliannostukseen muutama päivä ennen levyn julkaisua ja näin ainokainen levy jäi bändin viimeiseksi.

”How did I get here
What song did I sing
Just what have I done to deserve such a thing
(You say I’ve heard all that before)
(So won’t you give it up and stop using me)
(I’ve heard all that before)
So bring me an apple, I’m crying
I been persecuted, like a lying man
The spirit provides me
Its what I am today
This spirit it gives but also can take away
(And you say I’ve heard all that before)
(So won’t you give it up baby and stop using me)
(I’ve heard this all before)
So come bite the apple, I’m run down
Like sodom to gommorah, all dead now
So please stop to laugh and pity me
My soul means well but I’m sorry
My skin it is withered and I’m nervous
My future was in my hands, ’til I washed it all away
Get along little sister I heard your doing well
Doing well said get along little sister
Heard your doing well
Etc, bla, bla, bla”

Porcupine Tree – Fear Of a Blank Planet

Kappale kertoo kertoo nuoresta joka kärsii kaksisuuntaisesta mielialahäiriöstä. Hänen mielestään mikään ei enää tunnu miltään, kaikki on turhaa, eikä mihinkään voi enää keskittyä. Pelit, pornografia ja seksi tuntuu hänelle merkityksettömältä ja tylsältä Ainoa pakokeino on nimeämättömät reseptilääkkeet. Oletettavasti masennus -eli SSRI lääkkeitä.

Koko albumi on keskeytyy samankaltaisten aiheiden ympärille

The Pretty Things – L.S.D.

”Everybody’s talking, about my LSD
I say talk is easy, and moneys never free

LSD

But I always tell them
Life it ain’t so black
For everything I’m given
Somethings taken back

LSD
Yes I need LSD

It hasn’t got a care
He might be going fast
But is he going anywhere?”

Porcupine Tree – Linton Samuel Dawson

Biisi on hyvin varhaista Porcupine Treen tuotantoa. Taitaa olla bändin ensimmäiseltä EP:ltä. Biisin nimen etukirjaimista muodostuu LSD ja kyllähän tämä trippailevasta kaverista kertookin.

”Linton Samuel Dawson
Lives in inner space
He hangs around with a circus troupe
Outside the human race

Linton Samuel Dawson
Has just reached 25
Artists travel from outside time
Just to see his rainbow jive

He’s bored, He’s bored.

Linton Samuel Dawson
Yields his knowledge in a phial
A vivid play on an emerald day
I s experienced in his smile

Linton Samuel Dawson
Visits many open minds
He aids escape to tranquility
From the boredom of mankind

Boredom. From the boredom.
From the boredom of mankind.”

Bad Religion – Billy

Biisin on sanottu kuvaavan bändin kitaristin, Brett Gurewitzin, elämää. Onnistuneet sanat, etten sanoisi.

”I can recall the warm youth of a summer day, yeah
The sweetest lemonade, the darkest game arcade
And billy had a yearning in the corner of his mind, yeah
It moved him secretly, it moved him powerfully

But prescience was lacking and the present was all
And his aptitudes were carelessly wasted
And challenging life with the abandon of a fool
He squandered the hours of his day, yeah

Then darkness and disorder slapped him sharply in the face, yeah
It hit him like a friend, struck something deep within
He couldn’t break the chain of slow decay that seemed to drag him
Just like a fatal tie, toward the other side

And billy was a lunatic just barking at the moon
And his brain was totally wasted
He then exchanged his friends for a needle and a spoon
And he threw his future away, yeah

Bolt the door and throw away the key, yeah
Our dim reflection is all that you can see
So where is the justice when no one is at fault
And a human life is tragically wasted
How fragile is the flame that burns within us all
To light each passing day, yeah”

Project X – Straight Edge Revenge

Tässä biisissä tuodaan suht suorasukaisesti esiin Streittareiden mielipide niin alkoholiin kuin huumeisiinkin.

”I’m as straight as the line that you sniff up your nose
I’m as hard as the booze that you swill down your throat
I’m as bad as the shit you breath into your lungs
And I’ll fuck you up as fast as the pill on your tongue
STRAIGHT EDGE REVENGE

This time you pushed me too far!
I’m as straight as the line that you sniff up your nose
I’m as hard as the booze that you swill down your throat
I’m as bad as the shit you breath into your lungs
And I’ll fuck you up as fast as the pill on your tongue
STRAIGHT EDGE REVENGE”

Champion Jack Dupree – Junker’s Blues

Kyllä näissä vanhoissa bluesveisuissa vaan tavoitetaan hienosti tuo fiilis. Hieno on ralli ja hienot on sanat.

”all right… I’m sick as I can be…

Some people call me a junker, cause I’m loaded all the time
I just feel happy and I feel good all the time

Some people say I use a needle, and some say I slip cocaine
But that’s the best old feelin’ that I ever need

Say goodbye, goodbye to whiskey
Lord and so long to gin
I just want my reefer, I just want to feel high again

oh yes I’m a junker
I feel all right

Some people, some people crave for chicken
And some crave for a house steak
But when I get loaded lord I don’t want my milk and cake

oh yeah that’s what I want now…
They call me a junker…
Cause I’m loaded all the time…
But that ain’t nothin that I feel good all the time…”

Pantera – Suicide Note, Pt. 1

”Cheap cocaine, a dry inhale, the pills that kill and take
the pain away
Diet of life, shelter without, the face that cannot
see inside yours and mine

(Pre)
When I’m hiding, when I need it, it lets me
breathe, for our handle on this life, I don’t believe
this time

(Chorus)
Would you look at me now?
Can you tell I’m a man?
With these scars on my wrists
To prove I’ll try again
Try to die again, try to live through this night
Try to die again…..

Forever fooling, free and using, sliding down the
slide that breaks a will
Mothers angel, getting smarter, how smart are
you to regress unfulfilled? It’s a damn shame,
but who’s to blame?”