"Was the songwriter on drugs?" Topic

I'm not asking for the singer. "Inna godda davida" was supposed to be "In the garden of Eden". So goes the Urban Myth. Maybe?

Nor for Mis-heard lyrics. Like "‘scuse me while I kiss this guy". Although the singer may have….

Both of the above deserve their own Polls, but this is not the one.

No. I'm asking for honest to goodness lyrics that make you wonder "What is this dude on???"
My Number One candidate is MacArthur Park. Both Richard Harris (who may have been on something stronger than tea) and Donna Summer. Props for making it Disco. I think.
"Someone left the cake out in the rain!"
By the way, it can be weed, ‘shrooms, LSD, or whatever.
Errrr, yes. I AM asking you to be judgemental. 😄

MacArthur Park

I think that answer to "was the songwriter on drugs" is probably almost always yes. Alcohol and caffeine are drugs…

Hole in my shoe

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

I am a walrus for sure.

Andrew is of course right. But even if you left out alcohol and caffeine, I suspect he'd mostly still be right 1960's to the present. This would also be true of many/most of the singers. (No, I'm not calling them "artists." If I started down that road, I'd wind up calling the dwellers in Hollywood writers' rooms "creatives.")

Coleridge was high on opium when he thought through a long poem about Kubla Khan and Xanadu and started writing when he had come down. Then a visitor interrupted him, and it all vanished from his memory, except for the part that became Kubla Khan, Or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment.

That was in 1797. Kids always think they've invented everything, but we had drugs and sex back in the day, too. Where did you kids think you came from?

+1 Grattan54

Jimmy Webb was 100% on drugs, his heavy use in the 1960s is well documented.

For psychological reasons there's a big overlap between people who want to write songs and people who want to do drugs.

With a tuned ear, you can tell which drugs the singer and musicians are on — pot, coke, or psychedelics.

Doc Severenson and The Tonight Show Orchestra were always hopped up on coke and you could hear it in their playing — it really put the swing in the brass! He always had a big bag on hand for the band and guests on the show (kept the discussions lively) — that's why they called him 'Doc'.
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