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"Cod'ine" (also spelled "Codine" or "Codeine") is a contemporary folk song by the singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. Considered one of the earliest anti-drug songs, Sainte-Marie wrote the piece after becoming addicted to codeine which she had been given for a bronchial infection.
I thought 'a multi-story snowstorm' was quite a nice way to start a song." [4] Bassist Lawrence Donegan told The Journal in 1987, "It's about a cocaine freak. There's no message, it's just an observation type song. The band is definitely anti-drugs and I think the song makes it clear that the guy is an idiot." [5]
"Rx (Medicate)" is a song performed by Canadian rock band Theory of a Deadman, a track on their sixth studio album, Wake Up Call (2017). The song's lyrics were co-written by all four members of the band and address the prescription drug abuse epidemic occurring in North America.
"Snowblind" is a song by Styx that appears on the Paradise Theatre album released in 1981. The song is about the helplessness of cocaine addiction, [1] alternating between slow, brooding verses (sung by James Young) and a faster, harder-edged chorus (sung by Tommy Shaw), representing the addict's cycle of highs and lows.
Sirius said, "With clear and concise lyrics by the famous Mann-Weil songwriting team, there's no cheese on rock's first anti-drug platter." [7] The song was ranked number 400 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. [8] The song placed 36th on Paste Magazine ' s 2014 list of the "50 Best Garage Rock Songs of All Time ...
The song was the group's second single from their debut album, The First Edition. Producer Mike Post reversed a few riffs to create the intro; the guitar solo played by Glen Campbell was heavily compressed and a tremolo effect was used to achieve its sound. Another studio guitarist, Mike Deasy, provided the acoustic lead guitar parts. The track ...
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She explained: "It's like a bath. It's a big bath. I can sit down with my friends and play three chords or whatever or we'll hunt around and find the right three chords. Then they'll tell me what the song's about. Usually a sentence or a feeling will come or I can even just say to the person I'm with to tell me what it's about and give me a theme.