Addicted to love = Robert Palmer

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lucifers angel

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I am having a disagrement with my son and he seems to think that the song Addicted to love by robert palmer was suppose to be addicted to drugs instead, can someone tell me if he's right?

according to him robert palmer orignally wanted the song to sing "addicted to love"
 
Tell the son that both "love" and "drugs" are one syllable words. That should confound him for enough time for both of you to find some other gnat at which to strain.

Take care, and God bless.
 
lucifers angel said:
I am having a disagrement with my son and he seems to think that the song Addicted to love by robert palmer was suppose to be addicted to drugs instead, can someone tell me if he's right?

according to him robert palmer orignally wanted the song to sing "addicted to love"
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I just read the lyrics and although that could be code for drugs, I think he's actually talking about love. Love can make a person feel just like the lyrics of that song says.
 
lucifers angel said:
I am having a disagrement with my son and he seems to think that the song Addicted to love by robert palmer was suppose to be addicted to drugs instead, can someone tell me if he's right?

according to him robert palmer orignally wanted the song to sing "addicted to love"
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The songs lyrics:

Your lights are on, but you're not home
Your mind is not your own
Your heart sweats, your body shakes
Another kiss is what it takes

You can't sleep, you can't eat
There's no doubt, you're in deep
Your throat is tight, you can't breathe
Another kiss is all you need

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
You know you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

You see the signs, but you can't read
You're runnin' at a different speed
Your heart beats in double time
Another kiss and you'll be mine, a one track mind


You can't be saved
Oblivion is all you crave
If there's some left for you
You don't mind if you do

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
You know you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love

------ lead guitar ------

Your lights are on, but you're not home
Your will is not your own
You're heart sweats and teeth grind
Another kiss and you'll be mine

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
You know you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love


It sure looks like it could be drugs.
 
Either? Both?

Either way ... check out this take on the song: http://users.cis.net/sammy/addicted.htm

It's not nearly as evil as Klaus Wunderlich's performance of Beethoven's Ninth.

Remember, also, please, that especially in the 1980s, pop music sought double meanings. The masters of this, of course, are AC/DC, and few, if any can meet that standard:

And my balls are always bouncing,
My ballroom always full,
And everybody comes and comes again!
If your name is on the guest list,
No one can take you higher.
Everybody says I've got
Great balls of fire!

I've got big balls!
I've got big balls!
And they're such big balls,
Dirty big balls!
And he's got big balls!
And she's got big balls!
But we've got the biggest balls of them all!

Some balls are held for charity,
And some for fancy dress.
But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best.
My balls are always bouncing
To the left and to the right.
It's my belief that my big balls
Should be held every night!

Source: LyricsDomain
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(If you click the link, note that the line "everybody comes and comes again" is given over to the sexual connotation.)

Most likely, and as I understand it, the Palmer song means both, and is deliberately written as we hear it. Robert Palmer did a lot of cocaine, and this is the sort of double-entendre that seems really funny if you're on drugs when you first think of it.
 
lucifers angel said:
Addicted to love by robert palmer was suppose to be addicted to drugs instead, can someone tell me if he's right?
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What do you mean, "supposed to be"?
What it really means, or that somehow, for some reason, the lyrics got changed?

If you are referring to what it really means, I think you are both right.
I think he was pointing out the similarities between being addicted to love and drugs.

If he is trying to say that the lyrics were changed on him somehow without his permission or knowledge, that's just ridiculous - Palmer wrote the song.
It doesn't make any sense at all that he would have wanted it to be this way, but it was that way.
I would suspect your son is just saying it to goad you on.

lucifers angel said:
according to him robert palmer orignally wanted the song to sing "addicted to love"
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:bugeye: It is "addicted to love"? :bugeye:
 
So obviously about MDMA (ecstacy) :p


The songs lyrics:

Your lights are on, but you're not home
Your mind is not your own
Your heart sweats, your body shakes
Another kiss is what it takes

You can't sleep, you can't eat
There's no doubt, you're in deep
Your throat is tight, you can't breathe
Another kiss is all you need

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
You know you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

You see the signs, but you can't read
You're runnin' at a different speed
Your heart beats in double time
Another kiss and you'll be mine, a one track mind


You can't be saved
Oblivion is all you crave
If there's some left for you
You don't mind if you do

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
You know you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love

------ lead guitar ------

Your lights are on, but you're not home
Your will is not your own
You're heart sweats and teeth grind
Another kiss and you'll be mine

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
You know you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
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The song draws a parallel between being addicted to drugs and being in love. Is it really surprising that there are references which sound like drug references?

I don't think so.
 
James R said:
The song draws a parallel between being addicted to drugs and being in love. Is it really surprising that there are references which sound like drug references? I don't think so.
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Yes. The whole point is that drug addiction is used as a metaphor for love. Haven't any of you ever been so hopelessly in love that you were as looney as a drug addict... and looney in almost the very same way?

Joseph Campbell was fond of saying that one thing that is wrong with a lot of people is that they just don't understand metaphors. He was right.
 
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