Songs about Addiction

Haystack - "My First Day" 

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Haystack-My First Day

[Intro]

Sometimes I write about something, that like something I went through
Or something my people went through
And I felt like they needed some motivational shit
And it usually ends up going something like this... 

[Chorus]
My first day, without you in my life
Things felt strange, a bit deranged
Even so, I hope you're doin okay
Take it slow, you just never know... ( just never know, oh! )
Yo, you just never know... nooo (just never know, oh! )
You just never know... nooo (just never know, oh! )

[Verse 1]
My systems caught in conniption, stomach in knots
Feedin for my medicine, overcoming addiction
The first step is quittin, nah the first steps admittin
I got a problem, I need help, this is something I can't beat myself
I almost felt like I can't be cured
Rehab won't take me cuz I ain't insured
Layin in the bath tub, shakin like a new born
Searchin for the courage it'll take for me to move on
I've been livin life like this way too long
Beggin God please, bring me home
I stopped before, three or four days
Always end up back in the same place
People call me a junkie, dope fiend
How they gonna judge me, they don't even know me
Lights off, wanna be left alone, I'm tryin to enjoy the methodone
Put a Jimi Hendrix record on, and excuse me while I kiss the sky
Dosed off, woke up, sick to my stomach, ran to the bathroom
Started to vomit, the methodone wore off and the withdrawal started
That first day was the hardest... 

[Chorus]

My first day, without you in my life
Things felt strange, a bit deranged
Even so, I hope you're doin okay
Take it slow, you just never know... ( just never know, oh! )
Yo, you just never know... nooo (just never know, oh! )
You just never know... nooo (just never know, oh! )

[Verse 2]
Stayed strong, endured the rough weather
I ain't fully recovered but I'm doin much better
I can keep my food down to shakes and calms
They lowerin the doses of methodone
I eat V's and blow lots of dro
It's like chewin gum when you're tryin not to smoke
Keep my mind occupied, calm my nerves
It's not the same high, deep inside I... 
Just want one more but I can't turn back this week for it
But I done made it, almost a month
With just a couple of V's and I blew some blunts
But that weed and gonna make me OD
That other shit was gonna kill me
Six weeks, and everything seem so clear
Before I knew it, time flew and I was clean for a year
Can't believe something started off socially
Something I almost allowed to take over me
Days went by and it was sixteen months
And I swear to God I didn't fall off once
I, feel like a brand new guy and I'm definetly livin a brand new life
Some days I still resist the thirst but none's worst than the first (believe
That)

[Chorus]

My first day, without you in my life
Things felt strange, a bit deranged
Even so, I hope you're doin okay
Take it slow, you just never know... ( just never know, oh! )
Yo, you just never know... nooo (just never know, oh! )
You just never know... nooo (just never know, oh! )

[Verse 3]
Two years and I ain't touched it
Got a lot done, I been so productive
Rebuilt, I was so constructive
Can't believe I was so self destructive
Got a good job and I make big bucks
Went to the lot and got a new pick up
Got a brand new crib and a brand new kid
I think anybody can quit if I did
If you wanna quit, get up and go get the shit
Walk straight to the toilet, drop it, flush it, fuck it, fight it
Just resist it and if this helps then just keep listenin
When you start slippin I'll send you another one
Sonny, wasup?, we just saved another one
I know it's so hard like there's no God
But through him you're able to go so far
Hey, I don't wanna sound corny
I'm just like you either hungry or horny
Seems as though we get hooked so easily
Quitting becomes an impossibility
I ain't sayin treat your body like a church
Just don't let dope put your body in a hearse
The streets inside you, you just gotta search
And know that no day be harder than the first

[Chorus]

My first day, without you in my life
Things felt strange, a bit deranged
Even so, I hope you're doin okay
Take it slow, you just never know... ( just never know, oh! )
Yo, you just never know... nooo (just never know, oh! )
You just never know... nooo (just never know, oh! )

[Outro]

Yo, all my people, goin through they thing
Whatever they thing may be
Just know, God got his hands on you
And he'll grant you the serenity
To change the things you can't
And you can change that, aight
Hold me down and I'ma hold you down... one

Written by Smith, Michael Acton.

Source: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/h/haystak/my_first_day.html

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAXW1yI1G4M

Lullaby for a Recovering Addict

This is a song we found on youtube by a man named Jake silver. It is such a beautiful song and very touching! Here is the link for "Lullaby for a Recovering Addict"

He wrote this song "for those drowning in substance abuse and the proud survivors on the road to recovery"

The Needle And The Damage Done 

Neil Young 

 I caught you knockin' At my cellar door
 I love you, baby, Can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

 I hit the city and I lost my band
 I watched the needle Take another man
 Gone, gone, the damage done.

 I sing the song Because I love the man
I know that some Of you don't understand
Milk-blood To keep from running out.

 I've seen the needle And the damage done
 A little part of it in everyone
 But every junkie's Like a settin' sun.

Check out the above Needle and the damage done lyrics by Neil Young.

Neil Young

This song is short but has much meaning if you have ever been an addict and/or lost
people you have loved to heroin addiction. I like the song review given by William Ruhkmann on All music.com

"Neil Young used to introduce "The Needle and the Damage Done" in his concerts by describing it as a serious song about heroin addiction. Guitarist Danny Whitten, who is best known for his work with Neil young and the Band Crazy Horse, died of a heroin overdose in 1972."

WHITE RABBIT LYRICS  

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call to
Call Alice
When she was just small

When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said;
Feed your head
Feed your head

Writer: SLICK, GRACE WING
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing
Source: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/White-Rabbit-lyrics-Jefferson-Airplane/7109AE560A05F54748256BF40008120A
According to Wikipedia, this song is from the 1967 Album ‘Surrealistic Pillow’ and was the first song to sneak drug references past censors on the radio. This song has also been used in numerous films and television shows. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_(song)

Monkey on your Back

Aldo Nova

Aldo Nova

let me tell you a story about two kids in the city

see they both have a problem with life and it isn't very pretty

there's a kid called Timmy he use to be pretty witty

but then too many rides on the horse got him hooked and it's a pity 

cause now he's got a monkey

he's got a monkey 

can't fight it monkey on his back 

he can't deny it monkey

 he found a dragon that bites a hole in his arm at night 

where all the money goes 

monkey,monkey on his back 

monkey,monkey on his back 

a dirty monkey 

well there's a girl called sally she walks the streets in the city 

she works down on the corner every night gives her money up to willy 

you see her man's big willy and when he met her she was pretty 

but he gave her a habit that she didn't want now that's a pity 

cause now she's got a monkey

she's got a monkey 

can't fight it monkey 

she's gotta walk the streets to buy it 

monkey 

she found a dragon that bites a hole in her arm at night 

where all the money goes

monkey'monkey on her back

monkey'monkey on her back 

a dirty monkey 

well now listen everybody cause there's a moral to the story

clean up your act get the monkey off your back or you'll be sorry

keep yourself clean cause the monkey plays mean 

he'll put a knife in your back 

then the man in the black will show you a dragon that bites and you'll wind up with a 

monkey'monkey on your back 

monkey'monkey on your back

monkey'monkey on your back

monkey'monkey on your back

Source of "Monkey on your Back" Lyrics, 

Written by Aldo Nova 

Monkey on your back is a 1983 hard rock song written by Canadian born Aldo Nova, whose real name is Aldo Caporuscio. You can view more information on him here

Lullaby for a Recovering Addict

This is a song we found on youtube by a man named Jake silver. It is such a beautiful song and very touching! Here is the link for "Lullaby for a Recovering Addict"

He wrote this song "for those drowning in substance abuse and the proud survivors on the road to recovery"