Ozzy Osbourne says he wrote the song Suicide Solution after the death of his friend Bon Scott who died after drinking heavily one winter's night and passing out in his car.
Suicide Solution Wine is fine But whiskey's quicker suicide is slow with liquor Take a bottle drown your sorrows Then it floods away tomorrows
Evil thoughts and evil doings Cold, alone you hang in ruins Thought you'd escape the reaper You can't escape the master keeper
'Cause you feel life's unreal and you're living a lie Such a shame who's to blame and you're wondering why Then you ask from your cask is there life after birth What you saw can mean hell on this earth hell on this earth!!
Now you live inside a bottle The reaper's travelling at full throttle It's catching you but you don't see The reaper is you and the reaper is me
Breaking laws, knocking doors But there's no one at home Made your bed, rest your head But you lie there and moan Where to hide, suicide is the only way out Don't you know what it's really about
Wine is fine But whiskey's quicker Suicide is slow with liquor Take a bottle drown your sorrows Then it floods away tomorrows
just having a few thoughts as im doing my step 4, as a young man Bon Scott was one of my heroes, I drank whiskey because he drank it, I loved the wild rollercoaster lifestyle that he advertised and lived to the full himself,....I was pretty shy but I wanted to be that wild hell razor..there was even a dark romantic facination for me in the sad ending of Bonns life due to his alcoholism.
Hey Badger, I had my heros, Janis Joplin was my big one.Everytime I listened to her music I was drunk, high and stoned...wanting more. Then there was Hendrix, I spent hours, sitting in the dark with my booze, just listening and thinking.There was a time I went through suicidal thoughts and I would always put on their music, it was comforting in some sick way.
Today, for my sobriety, I don't listen to the old stuff from my drinking days, to many memories, the songs can drag me back in an instant. When I have to listen to them after awhile I start feeling uncomfortable, I even start getting shakey, my cue to go some place else.My husband still listens to it all, was still listening up to the day they took him back to jail this time, and Ozzy is one of his heros.I had to change my playthings, that included the music, what I put in is what comes out.
In Texas, even at the gas station the music you hear is about whiskey, beer and tequila drinking...it's a good thing that by the time I fill my gas tank I can't afford to walk in and buy anything else.
take it easy while doing your fourth step, go to lots of meetings, and stay close to the fellowship
i have mixed feelings about my old music, most of it reminds me of where i could go, so i keep listening, don't know if that makes sense or not but....
music and drinking simply seem to go together, honestly i don't listen to music nearly as often as i used to, i could never stand silence before now i enjoy it
but how true is that last line?????
"Take a bottle drown your sorrows, then it floods away tomorrows."
keep fighting the good fight badger, you're worth it!
There are countless songs that are triggers for me to reach for a can or a bottle; I went through so many phases of drinking and music, from high school, to college, to my bachelor days, to when I retreated to a dark corner of my home at night to booze it up--after the wife and kids were long in bed. So I don't listen to much music anymore, but when I do, I make sure I've got a nice, sweet glass of orange or grape juice at my side, so if a mechanism is triggered, I'm drinking something that's good for me.
Clear head, clear eyes, can remember what happened last night, no morning shakes: Sobriety is good!
Hi all, I know the connection between music and drinking. One of the bands I used to listen to is the Pogues. The lead singer (Shane McGowan) probably hasn't done a live performance sober for about 20 years. Real Irish drinking music.
I had to get rid of my Pogues CD's.
Hope everyone is well (And sober)
Bye for now.
Chris.
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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989"
DeadHead myself! Followed The Grateful Dead for YEARS. Used to work all winter then quit my job in the spring. My journey started in DC in March and ended in FL in September. Garcia is still my hero. He tried and failed many times to get clean and sober and ended up dieing in rehab detoxing from heroin. The remaining members achieved recovery thru the years. Bob Weir decided in the early years to clean up, he changed everything, even his diet to include only microbiotic foods and Phil Lesh who pushed his to the point that he ended up having to have a liver transplant, but now has MANY years of recovery and is the "poster child" for organ donation and giving blood. They formed a "group" many years back called WharfRats that are Deadheads in recovery and you can hang out with them during a show. The Dead's music does not "trigger" anything for me, I love them today in sobriety as much, if not more, than I ever did.
Doll
p.s Saw the Ozman many times over the years also and always got pissed off that he was usually too messed up to put on a good show, however after a few drinks of my own, it didn't seem to matter!
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* We eventually realize that just as the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, emotional turmoil comes before serenity. *
Wine is fine But whiskey's quicker
