Drugs

I like having modules. So here comes our first one: drugs. No doubt rock and roll has many many songs on this theme.

We played Radiohead's "Bones" and Cranberries' "Salvation".

BONES

I don't wanna be crippled and cracked
Shoulders wrists knees and back
Ground to dust and ash
Crawling on all fours

When you've got to feel that in your bones
When you've got to feel that in your bones

Now I can't climb the stairs
Pieces missing everywhere
Prozac painkillers

When you've got to feel that in your bones
When you've got to feel that in your bones
And I used to fly like Peter Pan
All the children flew when I touched their hands

You've got to feel that in your bones
You've got the feel that in your bones

SALVATION

To all those people doing lines,
Don't do it, don't do it.
Inject your soul with liberty,
It's free, it's free.

To all the kids with heroin eyes,
Don't do it, don't do it.
Because it's not not what it seems,
No no it's not not what it seems.

Salvation, salvation, salvation is free.
Salvation, salvation, salvation is free.

Ah, ah, ah, ah

To all the parents with sleepless nights,
Sleepless nights.
Tie your kids home to their beds,
Clean their heads.

To all the kids with heroin eyes,
Don't do it, don't do it.
Because it's not not what it seems,
No no it's not not what it seems.

Salvation, salvation, salvation is free.
Salvation, salvation, salvation is free.

Salvation, salvation, salvation is free.
Salvation, salvation, salvation is free.

Ah, ah, ah, ah

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The cool thing is: even though they deal with the same difficult subject, their approach is very different (though both are critical)! Similarities and differences were discussed in class.

Radiohead's piece is far more elusive, so hardly ever students "get it".(But I'm glad no one said it is about arthritis). On the other hand, "Salvation" is very straightforward (maybe too straightforward?)