""The Drugs Don't Work" is a song by the Britpop band The Verve and is featured on their third album, Urban Hymns. It was released on 1 September 1997 as the second single from the album, charting at number 1 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's most successful single in the UK. Composer Richard Ashcroft wrote the song in response to the death of his father to cancer [1] and is also thought to be influenced by his relationship with his wife. The chorus, and title line, 'The Drugs Don't work, they just make you worse' has double meaning; the drugs being given to his father not working and seemingly making him worse, and the undesired effect of drugs being taken to block out the pain of losing your father.
The song has also been covered by Ben Harper on his live album Live from Mars, and has also been covered by Skin. In Australia it was also covered by Grinspoon for youth radio station Triple J's Like A Version CD."
Yeah that should explain everything. It wasn't written about his mom or his sister or whatever, it was written about his father.
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""The Drugs Don't Work" is a song by the Britpop band The Verve and is featured on their third album, Urban Hymns. It was released on 1 September 1997 as the second single from the album, charting at number 1 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's most successful single in the UK. Composer Richard Ashcroft wrote the song in response to the death of his father to cancer [1] and is also thought to be influenced by his relationship with his wife. The chorus, and title line, 'The Drugs Don't work, they just make you worse' has double meaning; the drugs being given to his father not working and seemingly making him worse, and the undesired effect of drugs being taken to block out the pain of losing your father.
The song has also been covered by Ben Harper on his live album Live from Mars, and has also been covered by Skin. In Australia it was also covered by Grinspoon for youth radio station Triple J's Like A Version CD."
Yeah that should explain everything. It wasn't written about his mom or his sister or whatever, it was written about his father. =]