upbeat tune that certainly masks the weight of the lyrics. Sheeran penned the song after visiting a homeless shelter when he was 18 years old. During his visit, he heard stories about women who were struggling with substance abuse. Smoking crack in the song is poetically depicted as "...
Smoking, lazy on the cot Waiting for someone to come with bail Maybe they would, prob’ly not Look away, look away Sons of Dixie be not dismayed© 2023 Frank David Leone, Jr./Highway 80 Music (ASCAP). The songs and stories on the Highway 80 Stories website are works of fiction....
John Prine once said "Illegal Smile" wasn't about weed at all. "It was more about how, ever since I was a child, I had this view of the world where I can find myself smiling at stuff nobody else was smiling at," he said. "But it was such a good anthem for dope smokers that...
"Smoking Too Long" by Nick Drake "So Fast, So Numb" by R.E.M. "Sober" by Kelly Clarkson "Sober" by Pink "Socio" by Stone Stone (about social anxiety disorder) "Sole Survivor", Blue Öyster Cult (PTSD, survivor guilt) "Solitary Shell" by Dream Theater (Asperger's Syndrome) "Soli...
By the time Travis finishes singing about smoking weed and shawties licking him clean, the rest of the production unfurls into its own universe. As expansive as the beat becomes, it never overpowers Travis nor his collaborator, fellow H-Town representer Don Toliver. The producers of the track...
Fuel Economy: “The Rain” features verses of Missy observing the titular weather nastiness through her home window while smoking weed, and sitting on a hill undeterred as it starts falling on her umbrella — but in between, she takes a memorable drive to the beach, maintaining her way throu...
“Gucci Gucci” is a product of the brief New Bay movement — other participants included HBK Gang and LoveRance — and finds her chirping about smoking swisher blunts and slanging Adderall pills while mocking “basic bitches” who wear Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Prada luxury. The beat...
Far East Movement’s 2012 party song about, er, drinking, driving, cranking music, smoking weed and speeding was written and recorded at Snoop Dogg’s former Inglewood studio, Purple Reign. Far East Movement, best known for its 2010 EDM smash, “Like a G6,” burst out of Koreatown in ...
and there was a reception line. I noticed that Chloe and Lee had ducked away to an outside corner of the barn, near the foundation of an old stone silo, where they stood smoking cigarettes and looking elegant almost despite themselves. Beth and I greeted Kip and Felicia, who could not ...
It isn’t about being maudlin or morose, but I know things now I didn’t know 20 years ago. I know “the days dwindle down.” I recall my irrepressible youth. I couldn’t see the end of the blue-sky, sunny-summer days ahead and even though we always heard “We’re never ...