Hmmm.

[mad_andy]

There was an interesting programme on the radio as we drove over to my sister's house tonight. It was about cannabais, and whether it should be legalised. That wasn't the interesting bit. The interesting bit, for me, was that several of the guests on the show talked about people getting addicted. Having an addictive personality.

Doesn't matter if it's harmful or harmless - some people will be addicted to it.

I'm an addictive personality. I can't help it. It's the way I am.

For instance. Music. An addiction? For me, yes. And I know I go through phases; someone's lyrics will catch me right in the throat, and I won't be able to get them out of my mind. I have to listen to the song again and again, until that particular addiction is out of my system. Harmless, I guess.

Anyway, the song that provoked this? This one. There's all sorts of shit going on around me right now, and there's a couple of songs that have me in their grip, but this one...this one...

Devil On A Hog

Bruce Dickinson

You wanna know where legends live?
At the rainbow's end I'll be there
There's a place in innerspace...
That's where I'll get to you
I'm not the shy retiring kind
I'm like a supernova for the blind
I used to sit at God's right hand
But I quit that show to do my one night stands...

Coming outta nowhere I'm a Godhead rider...
You won't see my face no more
My machine has left the floor
Leave my rivals in the dirt
I've seen your world and I've got the shirt...
Before I leave and go my way
I loved it but I couldn't stay
There's nothing left for you to feel
Just remember me...

You might see me in Tokyo
To the rings of Saturn hey...let's go
And you can trip all the lights with me
But your one time chance is never free...
I'll see you baby once again
Maybe three score years and ten...
I'll be driving a different ship
That's when I'll take you down, for your final trip...

Coming outta nowhere I'm a Godhead rider...
You won't see my face no more
My machine has left the floor
Leave my rivals in the dirt
I've seen your world and I've got the shirt...
Before I leave and go my way
I loved it but I couldn't stay
There's nothing left for you to feel
Just remember me...

Coming outta nowhere I'm a Godhead rider...
Coming outta nowhere I'm a Godhead rider...
You won't see my face no more
My machine has left the floor
Leave my rivals in the dirt
I've seen your world and I've got the shirt...
Before I leave and go my way
I loved it but I couldn't stay
There's nothing left for you to feel
Just remember me...

~*~

The song's on Tyranny Of Souls, the new album. I've rather fallen in love with it (song and album) and...

I dunno. I've got an afternoon shift tomorrow, which doesn't excuse spending half the night on the 'net feeling baffled about the Universe. *Sigh*

Comments

[kelpierocks.livejournal.com]

If the music matches those lyrics... I guess I gotta go get that cd.

Thanks, once again, Andy. Hugs.

[stonefinder.livejournal.com]

I consider myself to have an addictive personality but I didn't get addicted to pot and I was a pretty heavy user for quite a while. When it ended, it ended abruptly and, except for the odd moment of nostalgia, I never missed it. So the quetions is, if people do get addicted to it, is it the pot itself they are addicted to or the escape it offers? And if it's the escape, well maybe instead of blaming a drug, those who decry it's use should blame whatever it is these so-called addicts are trying to escape from.

Do they ever do these studies in the Netherlands, I wonder?

Funny, how people still buy into the bullshit they were trained to believe. Even so called science.