Phenagen is a sleeping pill. At the time, both Lydon and Levene were paranoid shut-in druggies, in Levene's case hard narcotics. The line about wasting away in bed is a stab at Lydon, who would often spend days on end there watching television. Hence, this song is about putting yourself into a coma, TV on, doors and windows locked...
Phenagen is a sleeping pill. At the time, both Lydon and Levene were paranoid shut-in druggies, in Levene's case hard narcotics. The line about wasting away in bed is a stab at Lydon, who would often spend days on end there watching television. Hence, this song is about putting yourself into a coma, TV on, doors and windows locked...