The Whiskey Chronicles: Hidden Deep Inside

Musicians take drugs. Sometimes they write songs about them. Sometimes you don't realize your listening to a song about drugs. Here are 6 Songs About Drugs You Didn't Know Were About Drugs. Please put the bong down for the following post. Leave the vials in the trash kiddies.

6. "Black Balloon" by The Goo Goo Dolls
Drug Referenced: Heroin
Telling Lyrics/Song Origins: "Baby's black balloon makes her fly." "Comin down, the world turned over." "And I go on as you get colder."
According to the band, the song is about a girl suffering from heroin addiction. Her "black balloon" is her heroin stash, as heroin often comes in balloons. Getting colder and coming down are two notorious symptoms of heroin withdrawl. The song is actually a very sad one and is an ode to one of the band members' former love who died of an heroin overdose. Here is the video with some vague references to drug use if you look closely:

6. "Yellow" by Coldplay
Drug Referenced: Ecstacy
Telling Lyrics/Song Origins: "So then I took my turn,
Oh what a thing to have done, And it was all "Yellow."" "I drew a line, I drew a line for you, Oh what a thing to do"
Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin and the band may not directly admit this song is about drugs, but let me break it down for you. Ecstacy tablets come in different colors sometimes, including yellow. Although it may sound like a reach here, the "Drew a Line" lyric is very telling, almost as if he's "drawing the line" on drug addiction. The first lyric also indicates some sort of drug use. Believe it or not, I'm right. So there.

4. "Space Oddity" by David Bowie
Drug Referenced: Heroin
Telling Lyrics/Song Origins: "Take your protein pills and put your helmet on." "And Im floating in a most peculiar way, And the stars look very different today." "Here am I floating round my tin can."
The hidden meaning behind the song has to do with self-destruction and isolation from the world, which is what happens when you become a drug addict. The whole song is a "bad trip" through space that the astronaut is having so far detachted from the world. The man takes the pills and then feels peculiar and floating, looking at the world in a very different way. He's looking at the stars high or looking at them sober for the first time in a long time. Give it a listen and tell me I'm wrong:

3. "Hotel California" by The Eagles
Drug Referenced: Marijuana, Cocaine
Telling Lyrics/Song Origins: "Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air." "The stab it with their steely knives, But they just can’t kill the beast." "You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave."
Although The Eagles have never admitted what the song is about, good musicians never reveal the meaning behind their lyrics. The song, which I speculate is a referance to drug rehab, mentions "colitas" which is Spanish slang for marijuana. "Steely knives that can't kill the beast" refers to the cutting of cocaine before snorting it. The whole Hotel is a metaphor for drug rehab and the reputation that comes with addiction. You can check out of rehab anytime, but you bring your reputation with you wherever you go. You never really "leave" rehab once your an addict, the rest of your life is about getting clean.

2. "Champagne Supernova" by Oasis
Drug Referenced: Vague, possibly Marijuana or a psychadelic
Telling Lyrics/Song Origins: "Where were you when we were getting high?" "Caught beneath the landslide."
The lyrics speak for themselves. He wants to know where his love was when he was getting high. A "champagne supernova" could be another term for a "bad trip" or a euphoric state of mind. Although the drugs are not mentioned in even the vaguest sense, it's quite obvious: one of the Gallagher brothers that wrote this song was getting high and drinking champagne. The writer of the song, Noel Gallagher, said he doesn't know what the song was about, which basically means it's about drugs.

1. "There She Goes" by The La's (covered by Sixpence None the Richer)
Drug Referenced: Heroin
Telling Lyrics/Song Origins: "There she goes again... racing through my brain... pulsing through my vein... no one else can heal my pain"
The La's popular romantic song is actually not so romantic at all. The song is a vague reference to heroin use and self-destruction. The singer is not pointing out that the girl is leaving, rather it's more of a "here we go again" reference and the "she" mentioned is actually heroin racing through the singer's brain and veins. Nothing else can heal my pain? C'mon, heroin is one of the most destructive and strongest painkillers known to man. There is no way to deny that this song, thought to be about a girl, is really about the smack. You know, the white fairy, tecata, the black tar, or the dynamite? Well, if you know all that slang, check into rehab because only an addict would know that many words for heroin. Which begs the question: how do i know them?
(i looked them up on google)
here's the Sixpence None the Richer version, as it's better than the La's, so you can actually hear the heroin references for yourself: