Drug Drug Druggy

Manic Street Preachers

So much fun to be had in my head
No more sunshine
So much fun just lying in my bed
No more sunshine
I can't face the sunlight and the dirt outside
Wanna stay in 666 where this darkness don't lie

Drug drug druggy
Got a feeling sweet like honey
Drug drug druggy
Need sensation like my baby
Show me your scars you're so aware
I'm not barbaric I just care

Drug drug drug
I need a reflection to prove I exist
No more sunshine
I am a victim of designer blitz
No more sunshine
Dance like a robot when you're chained at the knee
The C.I.A say you're all they'll ever need

Drug drug druggy
Got a feeling sweet like honey
Drug drug druggy
Need sensation like my baby
Snort your lines you're so aware
I'm not barbaric I just care

Drug drug druggy
Got a feeling sweet like honey
Drug drug druggy
Need sensation like my baby


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  • +1
    General CommentIt's a very Manics song in that it was flying in the face of conventional youth culture at the time. In the early '90s "drug culture" was hip and the NME et al used to play-up bands' chemical excesses as being part of a youthful rebellion against staid, conservative, mainstream culture. In this song the Manics are turning that on its head, arguing that designer-drug users are apathetic, decadent, apolitical and self-destructive and are doing nothing to make the world a better place, quite the opposite. "Show me your scars you're so aware" might be a reference to Ritchie Edwards' self-harming, comparing it to drug-use as self-harm (Edwards also had a drink problem) or it might be having at go at "heroin chic" and the idea of the emaciated look as something to aspire to. "Dance like a robot when you're chained at the knee
    The C.I.A. say you're all they'll ever need" is the most explicitly political part; at the time designer drugs (notably ecstacy or "E" as referenced in the song's last line) were associated with rave culture which these lines allude to with its "robotic" glass-eyed dancers. The Manics seem to be suggesting that, rather than being a threat to the established order, such pleasure-seeking consumers were actually re-enforcing it.
    Zagreboon October 07, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment"It's just a very ambivalent attitude to drugs - and the different things that people use as drugs. Everybody has their own little obsession. I find it really annoying the way people come up to you and say 'Hey, I just smoked a couple of joints and I'm really off my head.' So what? If someone said ' I've drunk 10 pints and I'm really out of it,' you'd think they were pathetic, and it's the same thing."
    (Richey James; Melody Maker, 19 June 1993)
    manic4manicson October 23, 2012   Link
  • 0
    General Commentits about well... drug abuse...
    BloodLuston July 12, 2002   Link
  • 0
    General CommentShould be spelt Drug Drug Druggy
    my nothingon November 23, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General CommentOne of my favorite MSP lyrics:

    I need a reflection to prove I exist
    I am a victim of designer blitz
    kexpseattleon August 26, 2019   Link

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