| The Mountain Goats – Color in Your Cheeks Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I always seemed to hear the drug angle when listening to this song, although i never considered it to be about alcohol at all because of the lines, "we haven't slept for weeks" and "we let the silence that's our trademark" as alcohol would, presumably make one more social and sedated and thus eventually sleepy. I always thought of the "drink" being like electric acid koolaid or something as it is following a song about the high school running back selling acid and, "but five minutes looking in his eyes and we all knew he / was broken pretty bad, so we gave him what we had." seems to imply to me some sort of healing or changing quality. Although not very documented due to legal status and stigma, psychedelics do have therapeutic qualities and can often lead to life-changing revelations and have been used successfully in psychotherapy settings. | |
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