Backlash Jack Lyrics
That is what he said to me
Tremors cause the weak to flee
So choose your friends
And choose wisely
Formed the band wagon
The first rat off the ship
Is the first to be too hip
Again he warned me of what I'd see
When praises come too easily
Pay for lip, backlash is free
I think once is enough
His ears think the sounds
He dreams what he has found
Again he warned me of what I'd see
When praises come too easily
Pay for lip, backlash is free
Formed the band wagon
The first rat off the ship
Is the one to be too hip
About conformity in the punk rock community. About achieving a level of success and the fans who supported you then calling you a "sell out"
‘Don’t touch the stuff, I think once is enough, his ears think the sounds, he dreams what he has found.’ Heroin, pure and simple. Latin Kings have a straight pipeline from Mexico to Chicago, and beyond. Why do people become junkies? Because, for some, it’s how they get through life. It works for them. I’ve personally met a few that just nursed their habits along for years, occasionally coming down but not to clean up; their tolerance had gotten too high, so they went through the withdrawals on their own, like a reset. One guy (who’d just shot up in his car ten minutes before) told me ‘if you don’t think you know any heroin addicts you’re wrong.’ But not to sound like a dick, he was just stating a fact. Then some chemist in Mexico started making Fentanyl and addicts started dropping like flies. This guy I knew was one of them, and he ODed and died. But addicts went crazy for that shit- they wanted that harder hit. I got hurt, couldn’t work, went on opioids. Funneled down to Morphine and Percocet for about a decade, until they stopped working. Withdrawing was insanity, literally. Banging my head on the wall, not showering because I couldn’t stand the thought of water hitting my skin, it was like going through a bad car accident about 15 times. Backlash Jack said it would happen to me. He wasn’t wrong.