| The Verve – The Drugs Don't Work Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| As someone who's just gone through losing my grandad who was basically my father throughout my life so far, after watching him struggle with cancer for years, this song just breaks me into pieces. | |
| The Verve – The Drugs Don't Work Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| it was about troubles with his wife and his dad dying of terminal cancer, listening to the demo version it's less inspired by his wife than the polished version | |
| The Verve – Sonnet Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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unfortunately i think this was a song coupled with the drugs don't work is about richard ashcroft's father's death. and is about talking to a family member about it or his wife, whom he was struggling with at the time in this part of the song 'My friend and me Looking through her red box of memories Faded I'm sure But love seems to stick in her veins you know' Then later on when he says lines such as 'looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye' and 'Sinking faster than a boat without a hull My lord Dreaming about the day when I can see you there My side By my side' Showing how he was feeling at the time, like only god could save him as things were caving in around him with his struggles with his wife and his father's death. Then the ending seems like he's praying or gone to visit his father's grave 'i stop to say hello' and his 'head is gone' because it's all out of control and he's breaking under the pressure of everything. I've always felt extremely sympathetic toward richard ashcroft as the man is a lyrical genius who expertly expresses the pain that clearly runs so deep in him. Especially true in the drugs don't work, where his heart seems to break with every bar he sings in both the polished and demo versions. Poor bloke :'( |
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