Marilyn Manson: I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) Meaning

Song Released: 1999

I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) Lyrics

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1. anonymous

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   Sep 5th 2019 !⃝

   My opinion with me being a recovering addict, is all about drug addiction wether or not if you're a celebrity or a average person. When the song talks about being underdosed and ready to fall, that's leading to relapse. The part where it says Norm life baby, we're rehabbed and we're ready for our 15 min. Of shame. I believe that is referring to relapse also because it's guilt, shame and remorse an addict feels when they complete a recovery program and relapse. As for a celebrity the 15 min. Of shame, I feel is because of their personal addiction being televised and made public. Another part says there's a whole in our soul that we fill with dope and we're feeling fine. To me most addicts feel and me personally feel empty because of, it could be many things, for example dealing with death of a loved one or split relationship or mental illness like depression, abuse in anyway, all these things could make a person feel like that, a whole in your soul, not complete and empty. We fill that whole with dope because no one wants to feel like that so when addicts fill that whole with dope of course we feel fine. This is just my opinion.
2. anonymous

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   Aug 8th 2017 !⃝

   is about the hollywood world of drugs, and a criticism to conservatism, and a awful life...
   "Norm life baby "we're white and oh so hetero and our sex is missionary"", a criticism to homophobia, racism and religion (in religion, missionay is the only sexual position accepted)
   
   "You and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
   Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all
   We're taught to be nothing"
   
   a direct reference to "Brave new world" (in the book, a pill called soma is used to heal depression and other problems, but the truth is, that is used to control people and making them easier to control and monotonous), in this time, comparing them with the society. The pill or the "drugs" in the song are T.V., Magazines and all distractions of our normal life, their making us stupid only to make us easier to control.
   
   "I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me"
   
   as i said before, the "drugs" are T.V., Magazines and all distractions of our normal life, you don't like them, but they like you, they want you to stay with them to make you stupid, is curious, because it refers to drugs too, how in world you don't like drugs, but, they get into you easily.
   
   "Norm life baby "we're rehabbed and we're ready for our 15 minutes of shame""
   
   we are controlled by others and "15 minutes of shame", a parody to "15 minutes of fame", it refers how funless are fame and how stupid it has to be, to just be "famous".
   
   "There's a hole in our soul that we fill with dope. And we're feelin' fine"
   
   the most reference to "Brave new world" like i said before.
   
   The song talks about, how high society people are controlling us using drugs, TV, Internet, and how are changing and manipulating our brain.

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