My life in 6 songs
I've been featured this week on a great series over at running sobers blog in which people are describing their lives through 6 songs...
Tom Edwards' Poem "Why I don't drink anymore"
Thanks to my friend DeeJay for pointing this out to me - it was on a BBC2 show. An excellent summary of alcoholism I changed because I have the sickness of alcoholism, alcoholism doesn't come in bottles it comes in people. You should have seen me. I drank for happiness and became unhappy; I drank for joy and became miserable. I drank to be out-going and became self-centred; I drank for sociability and became argumentative and lonely; I drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious. I drank for friendship and made enemies, I drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self-pity; I drank for sleep and awakened without rest. I drank for strength and felt weak. I drank for masculinity and it sapped my potency; I drank medicinally and got sick. I drank because I thought my job called for it and lost my job. I drank to stimulate thought and blacked out. I drank to make conversation and got to where I couldn't talk at all; I drank to forget and became haunted. I drank for freedom...
I don't know if it falls within the criteria of the series but I can tell you one song that changed the way I live. If it weren't for Rush's Fly By Night I'd still be back in Cleveland holding two jobs; one slicing deli meat and another pumping gas. That song inspired me to get off my ass and do something. I thought that because I didn't attend college I wasn't entitled to lead an interesting life but Messrs. Lee, Pert and Lifeson had a thing or two to say about that. Plus, it's got a killer guitar solo. Halfway through he makes that one note kind of squeak. It's PERFECT.
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