Nine Inch Nails – Hurt

Myös Johnny Cash on tehnyt oivallisen coverin tästä kipeästä kappaleesta. Laulun kertoja ei vaan saa elämästään otetta, vaan satuttaa aina itseään.

”I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that’s real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything”

Pink Floyd – Confortably Numb

Biisin on sanottu kuvaavan heroiinin käyttöä…

”There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are 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”

Oasis – Cigarettes & Alcohol

”You could wait for a lifetime
To spend your days in the sunshine
You might as well do the white line
Cos when it comes on top . . .
You gotta make it happen!”

Röökistä ja alkoholista tässä enimmäkseen lauleskellaan, mutta kyllähän tuossa valkoisen viivatkin vilahtavat.

Korn – Helmet in the Bush

Biisin on sanottu kertovan Kornin laulajan amfetamiinin käytöstä.

”I keep asking what’s your lie? It is disturbing, this isn’t right. Days keep
passing. One notch at a time. I don’t feel right. Please God let me sleep tonight.
Every day confronted. Sucker freinds, it’s giving in. I just wanna know why?
{want to} give it. . . I can’t escape. (3 times)
I keep asking, can you please try. It is
haunting, this tin stone mine. Days keep passing. Line after line. I don’t feel right.
Please God don’t let me die tonight.”