the fate of their baby

"When I was a young man I learned not to care
Wild whiskey, confronted I often did swear
My mother and father said whiskey is a curse
But the fate of their baby is many times worse"
-Buffy St. Marie "Codine"

Trip out. There's a website dedicated to songs with lyrics about drug use. Not that anything should amaze me on the internet anymore.



except from Ann Marlowe- "How to Stop Time":

" Not for a minute can I subscribe to the popular view, encouraged by William S. Burroughs, of addiction as uncontrollable need. Still less can I take addiction as the excuse for bad behavior. No one would condone stealing or child abuse on feeling the effects of the flu, and all but the severest dope sickness is no more rigorous than a nasty flu. Unpleasant? Yes. Sufficient explanation for amoral selfishness? Scarcely. Heroin eventually made me bad-tempered and remote but it didn't make me beg, cheat or steal. Had I done these things, heroin would've been no excuse.

This is an unpopular view, Americans are eager to read addiction as a virtually uncontrollable drive."