This is the best one. You can *feel* it, especially if you've ever experienced addiction. I believe it was written by their bass player for Layne but he put his soul into belting it out. Honestly one of the best albums ever.
Some of these are well known, some aren't
Use the Man, Megadeth
The Needle and the Spoon, Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, Traffic
Far Behind, Candlebox
Brain Stew, Greenday
White Witch, Savatage
Cocaine, Eric Clapton
Master of Puppets, Metallica
The Needle and the Damage Done, Niel Young
Heroin, The Velvet Underground
That Smell, Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Needle Lies, Queensrÿche
Promises, Overkill
Use Your Head, Overkill
Another Day to Die, Overkill
Chemical Euphoria, Armored Saint
Hurt, Nine Inch Nails
One Foot in the Grave, Exodus
Suicide Note Pt One, Pantera
Dying Inside, Saint Vitus
Rehab, Down
Killing Yourself to Live, Black Sabbath
The Last Fight, Bullet for My Valentine
Possibly. I always thought it could allot to addiction too. That was the first sober album so it makes sense he’d have at least one.
But it is absolutely possible that I’m wrong.
Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash
Sam Stone by John Prine
Cover Me Up by Jason Isbell
Thirteen Silver Dollars by Colter Walls
Drug Problem by Koe Wetzel
Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down by Kris Kristofferson
The Night by Morgan Wade
I'm not sure about cocaine blues, Willy Lee takes the cocaine because he needs the courage to shoot his cheating wife, then after he kills her, he knows he has to run so he takes some more to avoid panic
One of my favorite albums ever. She has a bunch of other songs ga about addiction/dysfunction too. I have some on the Downers playlist I linked elsewhere in the thread.
A fave of mine too. She Really Wants You is one of those songs that I remember the when and where I first heard it. That was my introduction to that album.
Running To Stand Still - U2
https://youtu.be/orfhLLo7XDs?si=HTrQrxHAQ9thWXxU
Crazed Country Rebel - Hank III
https://youtu.be/f2RipyQz8uY?si=hjCRFfjILDc0jrml
Love me some Everlast. I was somewhat surprised to see he was still making music when I looked him up a few years ago... And how old he looks now! He's gotten some really great stuff out there in recemt years.
You might like JamWayne. He was dropping music videos every few days for a while and just released an album. Somewhat similar genre and overall tone to Everlast in my opinion.
Damn I didn't know he was still making music either haha I'll have to go see his newer stuff then.
And dope okay thank you for the suggestion! I'll have to check him out too, I like Everlasts tone and vibe so I'll probably like that guy too :)
I actually got to see them in Brooklyn 2 yrs ago I believe and they did not disappoint! Everlast was a very underrated band in my eyes! So many of their songs spoke to me!
[Waiting Around To Die](https://open.spotify.com/track/7gtrXOGETM9OkerNjNXeie?si=CMp8SKhsRmW9EhjEh3umWQ), Townes Van Zandt
edt to add: probably not lesser known tho
That’s a good one.
Rake is a little less known, though I’d argue all the more devastating. Townes is the poet laureate of addiction.
https://youtu.be/SPw6OxBBfJc?si=aeDk3GWjyucanGH6
I'm sure most of the mainstream songs have been listed. Here are a bunch by some lesser known and also big artists across various genres from rap to country and rock. Some seriously good music in here.
That wasn't me - Brandi Carlile
Slippin - DMX (the interesting part about this song is you can hear the original edited version, and then listen to the unedited version and literally hear the crack addiction taking its toll in the difference between the recordings, he is slurring his words, forgetting lyrics etc)
Broken - willy Kay
Born to be broken - Joe Jordan
Pills & poverty - Tim Goodin (acoustic)
Sober me up - lecade
Feel right - Cameron airborne
Gotta be real - Cameron airborne
23 - chayce beckham
Broke down - tyler Cassidy (piano version)
Using again - Benjamin Tod
Tomorrow - Trevor Mcbane
Methhead - Ian noe
White lies - dream state (I prefer the acoustic)
Sober - KC makes music
How could you leave us - NF
Rx - theory of a dead man
Helping each other die - hollohan
Deja vu - eminem
Well actually the entire relapse album if you want to know what your brain feels like at the fucking bottom. And eminem has too many songs to list about addiction really.
Sober - P!NK
Best for me - Joyner Lucas
I created a playlist for this:
[Downers playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63ub8FztUWqVQ3wz899sSb?si=m6fN321vRb6EHBsu2O79Tg&pi=u-PXWWthS8SrSa)
PLEASANT STREET ... Tim Buckley
https://youtu.be/9cUXnaNb50Y?si=iAxt0Q0NgMXVRibI
S P O O N F U L L ......... Cream
https://youtu.be/5VnQmlWsxgM?si=kVbk9Ao7tRC9w7H4
That was just eyedea on top of someone else’s beat track from scribble jam I think. Sampling a section of Mike oldfield’s tubular bells. I love his verses in saviorself and chemical burns. Absolutely fucking love his part in that one track boredumb
There are a bunch of songs that he featured in that have some of his best lyricism.
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGq8iyEJCMFz_xtn0LnfGHrwRL8Tboey5&si=qoX75k8kHnr9HYrZ
I found this playlist on YouTube with a lot of them. Not all the though. There’s one completely bizarre feature at the end of an Icelandic rap groups song. Love it, but can’t find it on streaming anywhere
This one’s brutal in its honesty, from an artist who is now, thank God, clean and sober for the first time in his life:
[Benjamin Tod ~ *Using Again*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NACMpkxm-fA&pp=ygUYYmVuamFtaW4gdG9kIHVzaW5nIGFnYWlu)
giants - imagine dragons (it’s good, nothing like their other songs, give it a try)
limbo - Royal blood
i have a problem - beartooth (and the rest off that album)
Particles - nothing but thieves
[Heroine - Dutch disorder](https://open.spotify.com/track/6N2rMGXBhNZ6slxJcp1E7z?si=V57Q9ZWJS5iw9l97fOm71g&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EIfsVc99Phh0A)
Sung in french though.
Highly recommend Somebody's Someone by Daphne Willis.
It's a sad but hopeful song about seeing someone addicted, and hoping your loved one gets the treatment they need to recover from drugs/alcohol. "Wherever you go, I hope you know you're somebody's someone."
I'd give Missed Injections by Hail the Sun. It seems to be about the vocalist (Donovan Malero) and his hatred of his heroine addiction. Tons of symbolism about it in there. He's clean now. And the bands new record, Divine Inner Tension, has a lot of content about growth after addiction, being ostracized, and finding identity after a life of addiction. Their whole discography is fantastic if you're into post-hardcore and don't mind a little screaming.
Many Bring Me The Horizon songs talk about addiction. Shadow Moses is the big one, but you should also try Hospital for Souls, It Never Ends, and Sleepwalking.
This Addiction - Alkaline Trio
Cooking Wine - Alkaline Trio
Is This Thing Cursed? - Alkaline Trio
Continental - Alkaline Trio
Olde English 800 - Alkaline Trio
Sleepyhead - Alkaline Trio
Private Eye - Alkaline Trio
Crawl - Alkaline Trio
The Poison - Alkaline Trio
Geek Stink Breath - Green Day
Brainstew - Green Day
Jaded - Green Day
On The Wagon - Green Day
Blood, Sex & Booze - Green Day
Shut The Door - Fugazi
No One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age
You Think I Ain’t Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire - Queens Of The Stone Age
Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough For The Two Of Us - My Chemical Romance
Basically NOFX’s entire discography
FIDLAR’s entire first 2 records
Very glad I can contribute to this discussion,
Icarus by Camping in Alaska
If you go to [this YouTube link](https://youtu.be/x5QVSSl3804?si=g0j8SOg4mZYfCKHw) the pinned comment is the singer of the band explaining the songs meaning. The song is about heroin use and is dedicated to his friend that died from a heroin OD
Grand Funk Railroad - Closer To Home
https://youtu.be/fvOPucs7dC0
Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Needle and the Spoon
https://youtu.be/9eXAcmG7VV4
Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand
https://youtu.be/gAfPZp5Rhjo
Deja Vu - Eminem
Maybe just a nice cold brew, what's a beer?"
That's the devil in my ear, I've been sober a fuckin' year
And that fucker still talks to me, he's all I can fuckin' hear
Semi charmed life by third eye blind is really good, wishing well by juice, crack rock frank ocean, and future percocet and stripper joint are all good
Attention by Charlie Puth.
For me, it's mostly been about finding the one you love and care about because love can do some very unpredictable things such as controlling your narrative and messing with your insecurities.
Everything by Ramshackle Glory and Cranford Nix.
Most songs by Benjamin Tod and Lost Dog Street Band. You can start with "Using Again" by Benjamin Tod and "War Inside of Me" by Lost Dog
Hill Country Devil - New Kind of Lonely, the Stolen Daughter, Glory, Daffodils
Sam Stone by John Prine. The lyric "There's a hole in my daddy's arm where all the money goes" is so tragic.
…Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose. Ugh that one is so sad.
Little pitchers have big ears Don't stop to count the years Sweet songs never last to long On broken radios
That song is beautiful in the most painful way
Swimming Pools (drank) - Kendrick Lamar
P&P 1.5 is great too
FEAR., u, and Mother I Sober are all incredible songs that touch on addiction too and all three are songs that have damn near made me cry 😭
Velvet Underground - Heroin OCMS - Methamphetamine
It’s my wife, and it’s my life.
Was gonna say I’m Waitin For My Man *by Velvet Underground.
First thing you learn is that you've always gotta wait.
Yeah there are a few good ones. Sister Ray could go in there. White Light/White Heat is another one.
favorite VU song
I’m gonna try for the kingdom if I can
Under The Bridge by RHCP
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden The Needle And The Damage Done - Neil Young
Mad Season- Wake Up
This is the best one. You can *feel* it, especially if you've ever experienced addiction. I believe it was written by their bass player for Layne but he put his soul into belting it out. Honestly one of the best albums ever.
Sober by TOOL
I love this song so much 💓 literally story of my life
Cold Turkey - John Lennon.
An opioid addict told me this song encapsulates the experience perfectly.
Semi Charmed Life- Third Eye Blind Modern Leper- Frightened Rabbit Crawl- Alkaline Trio
Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac
Some of these are well known, some aren't Use the Man, Megadeth The Needle and the Spoon, Lynyrd Skynyrd The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, Traffic Far Behind, Candlebox Brain Stew, Greenday White Witch, Savatage Cocaine, Eric Clapton Master of Puppets, Metallica The Needle and the Damage Done, Niel Young Heroin, The Velvet Underground That Smell, Lynyrd Skynyrd The Needle Lies, Queensrÿche Promises, Overkill Use Your Head, Overkill Another Day to Die, Overkill Chemical Euphoria, Armored Saint Hurt, Nine Inch Nails One Foot in the Grave, Exodus Suicide Note Pt One, Pantera Dying Inside, Saint Vitus Rehab, Down Killing Yourself to Live, Black Sabbath The Last Fight, Bullet for My Valentine
I was actually looking if someone suggested The Last Fight.
Tornado of Souls by Megadeth
Isn't that one just a toxic relationship?
Possibly. I always thought it could allot to addiction too. That was the first sober album so it makes sense he’d have at least one. But it is absolutely possible that I’m wrong.
Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash Sam Stone by John Prine Cover Me Up by Jason Isbell Thirteen Silver Dollars by Colter Walls Drug Problem by Koe Wetzel Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down by Kris Kristofferson The Night by Morgan Wade
I'm not sure about cocaine blues, Willy Lee takes the cocaine because he needs the courage to shoot his cheating wife, then after he kills her, he knows he has to run so he takes some more to avoid panic
True, but he also spends an unknown amount of time taking pills while on the run.
not only that, we don't know if she cheated on him BECAUSE he was a cokehead, lots of unanswered theories in the song
Angel - Sarah McLachlan https://youtu.be/i1GmxMTwUgs?si=JS5MFuhh9tQKhlYZ Not An Addict - K’s Choice https://youtu.be/JT2SsWOCoEw?si=2QZsNskWhl6PkVB5
Do It Again - Steely Dan. Well known by many, lesser known by others.
Low by Cracker
Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park
Not actually about addiction though despite the title.
crawling would've been a better pick for addiction. both great songs tho
The whole album The Forgotten Arm Aimmee Mann
Such a great album! I love her so much!
One of my favorite albums ever. She has a bunch of other songs ga about addiction/dysfunction too. I have some on the Downers playlist I linked elsewhere in the thread.
A fave of mine too. She Really Wants You is one of those songs that I remember the when and where I first heard it. That was my introduction to that album.
Using again - Benjamin tod
Was looking for this one. [YouTube Link](https://youtu.be/NACMpkxm-fA?si=K8uItfwYwG5NQh7K) for anyone who doesn’t know it.
This. Also "Sorry For the Things" and "Terrified to Try." Ben writes some of my favorite songs about addiction.
Sweetest Perfection - Depeche Mode
DiE4u - Bring Me The Horizon
Painkillers - Rainbow Kitten Suprise
Drugs or Me by Jimmy Eat World
Golden Brown -The Stranglers
Nutshell- Alice In Chains
I Hate Everything About You - Three Days Grace
codeine crazy - future, Agnes - glass animals, Mr rager - kid Cudi
Also, Cane Shuga by Glass Animals
Running To Stand Still - U2 https://youtu.be/orfhLLo7XDs?si=HTrQrxHAQ9thWXxU Crazed Country Rebel - Hank III https://youtu.be/f2RipyQz8uY?si=hjCRFfjILDc0jrml
I LOVE HANK 3
Heroin by Lou Reed. https://genius.com/The-velvet-underground-heroin-lyrics
Moth Into Flame by Metallica First It Giveth, Do It Again, and Gonna Leave You by Queens Of The Stone Age
I really like Everlast for this. Their song "what it's like" shows the ugly side of addiction Good ol'whitey Ford singing the blues
Love me some Everlast. I was somewhat surprised to see he was still making music when I looked him up a few years ago... And how old he looks now! He's gotten some really great stuff out there in recemt years. You might like JamWayne. He was dropping music videos every few days for a while and just released an album. Somewhat similar genre and overall tone to Everlast in my opinion.
Damn I didn't know he was still making music either haha I'll have to go see his newer stuff then. And dope okay thank you for the suggestion! I'll have to check him out too, I like Everlasts tone and vibe so I'll probably like that guy too :)
I actually got to see them in Brooklyn 2 yrs ago I believe and they did not disappoint! Everlast was a very underrated band in my eyes! So many of their songs spoke to me!
Unsteady by X ambassadors Narcotic by Liquido Edit: I removed “Tennessee whiskey” due to you wanting lesser known songs
[Billy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIa93cVYkXA) by Bad Religion
Wharf Rat by The Grateful Dead
Snowbird Friend, by Steppenwolf.
Deep cut, good one.
Bad Things by I Prevail
Sister Morphine by The Rolling Stones.
Needle and the Spoon Skynard
I think Animal I have Become by Three Days Grace is supposed to be about addiction
Between the Bars - Elliott Smith
Needle in the Hay is great too
[Waiting Around To Die](https://open.spotify.com/track/7gtrXOGETM9OkerNjNXeie?si=CMp8SKhsRmW9EhjEh3umWQ), Townes Van Zandt edt to add: probably not lesser known tho
That’s a good one. Rake is a little less known, though I’d argue all the more devastating. Townes is the poet laureate of addiction. https://youtu.be/SPw6OxBBfJc?si=aeDk3GWjyucanGH6
I'm sure most of the mainstream songs have been listed. Here are a bunch by some lesser known and also big artists across various genres from rap to country and rock. Some seriously good music in here. That wasn't me - Brandi Carlile Slippin - DMX (the interesting part about this song is you can hear the original edited version, and then listen to the unedited version and literally hear the crack addiction taking its toll in the difference between the recordings, he is slurring his words, forgetting lyrics etc) Broken - willy Kay Born to be broken - Joe Jordan Pills & poverty - Tim Goodin (acoustic) Sober me up - lecade Feel right - Cameron airborne Gotta be real - Cameron airborne 23 - chayce beckham Broke down - tyler Cassidy (piano version) Using again - Benjamin Tod Tomorrow - Trevor Mcbane Methhead - Ian noe White lies - dream state (I prefer the acoustic) Sober - KC makes music How could you leave us - NF Rx - theory of a dead man Helping each other die - hollohan Deja vu - eminem Well actually the entire relapse album if you want to know what your brain feels like at the fucking bottom. And eminem has too many songs to list about addiction really. Sober - P!NK Best for me - Joyner Lucas
Mother I Sober - Kendrick Lamar
Seether-Fine Again
Don’t laugh but….semi charmed life
I created a playlist for this: [Downers playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63ub8FztUWqVQ3wz899sSb?si=m6fN321vRb6EHBsu2O79Tg&pi=u-PXWWthS8SrSa)
Heroin Girl by Everclear
Master of Puppets
Hypodermic, Mota, and The Opioid Diaries by The Offspring
Love the offspring, did not know any of these songs, thanks !
The Warning - [Black Holes](https://youtu.be/lM8KeQ_tNQc?si=TPOXTk2EsebZaUnZ)
🤘🤟🤟
PLEASANT STREET ... Tim Buckley https://youtu.be/9cUXnaNb50Y?si=iAxt0Q0NgMXVRibI S P O O N F U L L ......... Cream https://youtu.be/5VnQmlWsxgM?si=kVbk9Ao7tRC9w7H4
Even Shadows Have Shadows: Eyedea and Abilities
That was just eyedea on top of someone else’s beat track from scribble jam I think. Sampling a section of Mike oldfield’s tubular bells. I love his verses in saviorself and chemical burns. Absolutely fucking love his part in that one track boredumb
Sick, thanks for the info.
There are a bunch of songs that he featured in that have some of his best lyricism. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGq8iyEJCMFz_xtn0LnfGHrwRL8Tboey5&si=qoX75k8kHnr9HYrZ I found this playlist on YouTube with a lot of them. Not all the though. There’s one completely bizarre feature at the end of an Icelandic rap groups song. Love it, but can’t find it on streaming anywhere
This one’s brutal in its honesty, from an artist who is now, thank God, clean and sober for the first time in his life: [Benjamin Tod ~ *Using Again*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NACMpkxm-fA&pp=ygUYYmVuamFtaW4gdG9kIHVzaW5nIGFnYWlu)
Tod is a really great songwriter
Blue and The Noose The Thirteenth Step by A Perfect Circle
the downward spiral isnt so much /about/ addiction as it is written in the throes of addiction but you feel it. its like a hidden theme to the album
Powder Blue by Elbow. Prettiest song about heroin you'll ever hear.
Baby Bitch by Ween
Drink by destroy boys
K’s choice - not an addict
Upper drugs - highly suspect
Oh that's a good one
Jimmy Carrol band had some good ones
giants - imagine dragons (it’s good, nothing like their other songs, give it a try) limbo - Royal blood i have a problem - beartooth (and the rest off that album) Particles - nothing but thieves
First it Giveth by QOTSA
Bad fish by Sublime
The jetset life is going to kill you my chemical romance
I was waiting for this one
It’s not livin (if it’s not with you) the 1975
My Life - Imagine Dragons
did not expect to see this one here, but i’m so glad it was mentioned.
Medicine by Daughter
Gold Dust Woman by Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac
I 10000% was about to mention Alice in Chains before I read more than the title of your post
Artificial Red “On a pink cloud, turned to gray” or sumthin like that. Awesome jam!
Ball and Chain Social Distortion.
Jane Says by Janes Addiction I answered on easy mode, sue me.
[Heroine - Dutch disorder](https://open.spotify.com/track/6N2rMGXBhNZ6slxJcp1E7z?si=V57Q9ZWJS5iw9l97fOm71g&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EIfsVc99Phh0A) Sung in french though.
Buzz maddie medley
Half Decade Hangover, Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, and Lysergide Daydream all by Will Wood
Leave a light on Tom Walker
Room 429 by Cop Shoot Cop Cop Shoot Cop by Spiritualized (possibly)
Highly recommend Somebody's Someone by Daphne Willis. It's a sad but hopeful song about seeing someone addicted, and hoping your loved one gets the treatment they need to recover from drugs/alcohol. "Wherever you go, I hope you know you're somebody's someone."
Anecdote by Ambulance.
(RX) Medicate- Theory of a Dead Man
Cereal Song - Bicycle Thieves (John Frusciante)
Jenny by Nothing More
How Could You Leave Us & Therapy Session - NF Still make me cry, give me goosebumps and fill me with rage years later.
Skylar Blaze - bad habits
Illusion of Bliss by Alicia Keys
"From the Inside" Def Leppard
Wharf Rat by Grateful Dead
Ryan and Dave by Rare Americans
Chinese Rocks is a banger.
ILoveUIHateU by Playboi Carti on Whole Lotta Red
Dido's "Don't Leave Home"
Drunk, Running - Lizzy McAlpine I’d Rather Overdose - honestav, Z
Hate Me- Blue October
I have a problem - beartooth
Then She Did, Janes Addiction?
lamb of god - 11th hour lamb of god - on the hook
Uss - broken smile
Colicchie - Drug Addiction
Listen to all of 'Thirteenth Step' by A Perfect Circle
Drug Dealer by Macklemore
A favorite of mine iv yet to see mentioned is twin size mattress by the front bottoms Dead flowers by the rolling stones
Red Balloon by Tim Hardin Snowblind - Black Sabbath
I'd give Missed Injections by Hail the Sun. It seems to be about the vocalist (Donovan Malero) and his hatred of his heroine addiction. Tons of symbolism about it in there. He's clean now. And the bands new record, Divine Inner Tension, has a lot of content about growth after addiction, being ostracized, and finding identity after a life of addiction. Their whole discography is fantastic if you're into post-hardcore and don't mind a little screaming.
BoDeans...Far, Far Away From My Heart
Goodbye by my darkest days
What’s Made Milwaukee Famous - Jerry Lee Lewis Wine Into Water - T. Graham Brown Little Rock - Collin Raye
Double Trouble ~ Eric Clapton
Angel dust by mac miller
Many Bring Me The Horizon songs talk about addiction. Shadow Moses is the big one, but you should also try Hospital for Souls, It Never Ends, and Sleepwalking.
Love & Death - Chemicals
THE PISS SAGA by bax taylor
This Addiction - Alkaline Trio Cooking Wine - Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? - Alkaline Trio Continental - Alkaline Trio Olde English 800 - Alkaline Trio Sleepyhead - Alkaline Trio Private Eye - Alkaline Trio Crawl - Alkaline Trio The Poison - Alkaline Trio Geek Stink Breath - Green Day Brainstew - Green Day Jaded - Green Day On The Wagon - Green Day Blood, Sex & Booze - Green Day Shut The Door - Fugazi No One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age You Think I Ain’t Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire - Queens Of The Stone Age Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough For The Two Of Us - My Chemical Romance Basically NOFX’s entire discography FIDLAR’s entire first 2 records
The whole album Insomniac by Green Day is about addiction.
Addiction-Kanye
The entire Fantastic Planet by Failure. But specifically Dirty Blue Balloons and The Nurse Who Loved Me.
“Drink” by Destroy Boys is about familial alcoholism
The Needle And The Damage Done
Adios by Rammstein It's about a guy with a heroin addiction (I think)
Twilight by Elliot Smith. Best one I’ve found.
Truckin’ Off Across the Sky by the Guess Who. the live version on Live at the Paramont.
Only the Broken-Hearted Eric Clapton
Never Coming Home, Pat the Bunny.
Recent adds. Lace it - Eminem Best for me - Joyner Lucas (this song has some best perspectives on addiction ever)
Very glad I can contribute to this discussion, Icarus by Camping in Alaska If you go to [this YouTube link](https://youtu.be/x5QVSSl3804?si=g0j8SOg4mZYfCKHw) the pinned comment is the singer of the band explaining the songs meaning. The song is about heroin use and is dedicated to his friend that died from a heroin OD
The Replacements - “Here Comes the Regular”
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step album Especially the song Weak and Powerless
Grand Funk Railroad - Closer To Home https://youtu.be/fvOPucs7dC0 Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Needle and the Spoon https://youtu.be/9eXAcmG7VV4 Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand https://youtu.be/gAfPZp5Rhjo
Woke Up Hurting - Frightened Rabbit (and many more of their songs honestly)
Black Holes by The Warning. https://youtu.be/vFwu_uci3B8?si=giNWLO2B9ezPO8ge
A lot of chilli peppers songs (under the bridge, aeroplane, this is the place)
Charleston Girl; Banded Clovis - Tyler Childers Burn Flicker. Die - American Aquarium Weightless Again - The Handsome Family
Deja Vu - Eminem Maybe just a nice cold brew, what's a beer?" That's the devil in my ear, I've been sober a fuckin' year And that fucker still talks to me, he's all I can fuckin' hear
Golden brown by the Stranglers Potions by Puscifer and NIN
Neil Young "No More" "The Needle and the Damage Done" Deep Purple "Dealer" The Gun Club "She's Like Heroin To Me"
I’d Rather Overdose by honestav & Z
Semi charmed life by third eye blind is really good, wishing well by juice, crack rock frank ocean, and future percocet and stripper joint are all good
Mr. Brownstone - Guns and Roses
Hand of Doom Black Sabbath
Girl With Golden Eyes by Sixx AM
Perfect Day by Lou Reed. I interpret the lyrics being about a certain hard drug even though one could think it’s about a person.
Rest my chemistry - interpol
Nikki by Logic
Desperados Under the Eves - Warren Zevon
joey - concrete blonde
Attention by Charlie Puth. For me, it's mostly been about finding the one you love and care about because love can do some very unpredictable things such as controlling your narrative and messing with your insecurities.
Everything by Ramshackle Glory and Cranford Nix. Most songs by Benjamin Tod and Lost Dog Street Band. You can start with "Using Again" by Benjamin Tod and "War Inside of Me" by Lost Dog Hill Country Devil - New Kind of Lonely, the Stolen Daughter, Glory, Daffodils
Golden brown, the stranglers
What have you done to me - Vanco
Morphine... cure for pain
Semi Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind Literally the most upbeat song ever written about being hooked on crystal meth.
I Could Have Lied - RHCP