Drugs Don't Work

About Drugs Don't Work

"The Drugs Don't Work" is a song by the English rock band the Verve, written by Richard Ashcroft and is featured on their third album, Urban Hymns. It was released on 1 September 1997 as the second single from the album, debuting at number one on the UK Singles Chart. The beginning of the video shows the band walking down the street, following on from the end of “Bitter Sweet Symphony”. Ranked number seven on Channel 4's list of the 100 Greatest #1 Singles, the sombre nature of the song unintentionally captured the spirit of the nation as it was released the day after Princess Diana died. In October 2011, NME placed “The Drugs Don't Work” at number 78 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". more »

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1997

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So take your time
I wonder if you're here just to use my mind
Don't take it slow 
You know I've got a place to go
You always do that
Something I'm not quite sure of
But just for today
Let go and slide away

I was thinking maybe we could go outside 
Let the night sky cool your foolish pride
Don't you feel alive 
These are your times and our highs

So take your time
I wonder which cup you'll drink from
I hope it's mine
Because you always do that something
Something I'm not quite sure of
But just for today
Let go and slide away

'Cause I read your mind
I read it because it takes me where I can't find
Because you always do that something
Something I'm not quite sure of
But just for today
Let go and burn away

I was thinking maybe we could go outside 
Let the night sky cool your foolish pride
Don't you feel alive 
These are your times, these are your highs

Slide away, burn away
Slide away, burn away
I read your mind
I read your mind
'Cause it takes me to where I can't find

I was thinking maybe we could go outside 
Let the night sky cool your foolish pride
Don't you feel alive 
These are your times and our highs

Maybe, maybe we could go outside 
Let the night sky cool your foolish pride
Open up you feel alive 
These are your times and my highs

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The Verve

The Verve were an English alternative rock band formed in 1989 in Wigan by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bass guitarist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury. The guitarist and keyboard player Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space rock, by the mid-1990s the band had released several EPs and three albums. It also endured name and line-up changes, break-ups, health problems, drug abuse and various lawsuits. Filter referred to them as "one of the tightest knit, yet ultimately volatile bands in history". The band's commercial breakthrough was the 1997 album Urban Hymns, one of the best-selling albums in UK Chart history, and the single "Bitter Sweet Symphony", which became … more »

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