Too Much Caffine...

A couple of the others (Libby and Kristen I believe) in my book group have already posted on how the title Go Ask Alice was taken from song lyrics by Jefferson Airplane.

The lyrics support claims that Lewis Carroll was using drugs while writing Alice In Wonderland and that the story is full of drug refrences. However, there are as many websites and opinions that disagree with Jefferson Airplane's interpretation of the story as there sites that glorify the hookah smoking caterpillar.

Here is a link to one site that believes Carroll was a 'square':
Q: Was Carroll on drugs when he wrote the Alice books, or are the books about drugs?

In the same vein (vein - Ha - drugs, needles, veins) of druggie song lyrics, this song by band Jimmy Eat World reminded me a great deal of some of what Alice (in the book, not In Wonderland) went through in her drug use. Especially the dichotomy of drugs being an escape and making life's struggles easier (if only temporarily), while at the same time being dangerous and deadly. The song also talks about trying to stay clean while people around you are getting high.


Jimmy Eat World - Drugs Or Me Lyrics

Stay with me
You're the one that I need
You make the hardest things
Seem easy

Keep my heart
Somewhere drugs don't go
Were the sun shines lay
Always keep me close

If only you could see
The stranger next to me
You promised you promised that you're done
But i cant tell you from the drugs

Don't let go
Dig a great big hole
Down an endless hole
We'll both go

You're so blind
You cant see me this time
Hope comes from inside
And I feel so low tonight

If only you could see
The stranger next to me
You promised you promised that you're done
But I can't tell you from the drugs

I wish you could see
This face in front of me
You'r sorry swear it you're done
But I can't tell you from the drugs

(Ohhhh)
(Ohhhh)

(take me) I need your help
(so far away) To pull me up take the pain
(take me) Out from me
(so far away) Out from me

(Take me) If only you could see (I need your help)
(So far away) The stranger next to me (To pull me up take the
pain)
(Take me) You promised you promised that you're done (Out from
me)
(So far away) But I can't tell you from the drugs (Out from me)

(Take me) I wish that you could see (I need your help)
(So far away) This face in front of me (To pull me up take the
pain)
(Take me) You're sorry you swear it you're done (Out from me)
(So far away) But I can't tell you from the drugs (Out from me)

Keep my heart
somewhere drugs don't go
Where the sun shines low
always keep me close