term | drug | lyric |
Airplane | Marijuana | "don't know how she got so high before she got to the airplane" [LiaL] |
Amp(s) | Amphetamine; Marijuana laced with PCP | "love is like a battle of the bands/ crank up your amps, man" [LPvtEotE] |
Angel | PCP | "hey angel, remember that cat had the hat that said sharks" [Viceburgh]; "Angel, I didn't say goodbye" [Smidge]; "He said what about Los Angeles?" [DLME] etc. |
Ashes | Marijuana | In fact, "ashes" seem to refer to pipe ash, but it's still a drug reference: "she climbed into my bunk bed, put ashes on my forehead" [DStraps]; "Ashes to ashes and dust [see Dust below] in the spotlight" [TOT]; "And the crumbles [see Crumbles below] and the ashes that settled in her purse" [Be Honest] |
Aspirin | Powder cocaine | "and after the aspirin binge, before she got sent to the shrink" [SdS] |
Beach | Cocaine | "she put her lips like a leech up to the sex on the beach" [LiaL]; "beach patrol" [TLaDiLBI]; "jones beach" [SCity] |
Backwards | Depressants | "Slips Backwards" [SBackwards] |
Balloon | Heroin bag | "House of Balloons" [Oaks] |
Barb(s) | Depressants | "St. Barbara [see also Barbara Jean below], don't let me explode" [DLME] |
Barbara Jean | Marijuana | "St. Barbara [see also Barb(s) below], don't let me explode" [DLME] |
Beers | Meth | "tell him that I ain't done with my beers yet" [C&N]; "beer mixed with beer" [Brokerdealer INFHP] (laced drink) |
Biker's Coffee | Meth | "now everybody's makin love/ to guns and tons of biker drugs" [TMS] |
Bionic | Marijuana laced with PCP | "you're in a stupor ... kind of bionic" [NC] |
Black(s) | Marijuana; Meth; Heroin; Opium | "We did the black and the tans [see Tan below], into the black and the blue" [TMS] (but see also Black-and-Tans), "put on the paint [see Paint below] it black, shrug off her shoulder straps" [SdS]; "your cokey kisses in the tunnel of love they taste like black ice" [RtF] |
Black-and-Tans | Amphetamine | "Making love to the black and tans" [C&N]; "We did the black and the tans [see Tan below], into the black and the blue" [TMS] (gdict) |
Blade | Crystal meth | "They got kids that'll try to kill you at the carwash/ Coming down with blades up in their boots" [TAvenue] |
Blast; K-Blast | Marijuana; Cocaine; K-Blast=PCP | "she said it looks like a binge she said it felt like a blast" [SH1999] (milder intoxicant concealing something harder), "blasting transistors [compare boombox rocks]" [LGI]; "she blows blasts of static into music from the big pink [see Pink below]" [TMIT] |
Blockbusters | Depressants | "it was a blockbuster summer" [Swish] (gdict) |
Blocks | Cocaine | "He said hi, I like to party on the problem blocks" [BCamp] |
Blonde | Marijuana; Cocaine | "at the table with breaking out blondes" [LGI] |
Blue | Meth; Percocet; Crack | "they pulled the six [see TR-6 below] from their shoes, spilled the blues from his hatband" [LDoL]; "wasted on red [see Red below], white [see White below] and blue and the american flag and the maple leaf rag" [BiB]; "I blew red [see Red below] white [see White below] and blue right into a tissue [see Tissue below]" [Swish] |
Blue Lips | Ecstasy/MDMA | "blue lips from slippin the tongue too much" [LiaL] |
Blue Jeans | Marijuana | "Blacked out in blue jeans" [SShoes] |
Bones | Crack cocaine | "Kids with broken hearts [see Hearts below], kids with broken bones/ Kids with kidney stones [see Stones below]" [BBlues] |
Boom | Marijuana | "stashed in the battery pack of her boombox" [SGS]; "the boombox rocks" [SCity] |
Bottles | Amphetamine | "I wanna open some bottles up/ I'm getting tired/ Of all these styrofoam coffee cups" [SK] |
Boxes | Suboxone | "she puts it all into boxes on a big truck [see Truck below]" [Emperor] |
Brick | large quantity of drugs (various kinds; see also gdict) | "We dug in pretty deep and we were almost asleep/ Then someone put a brick through the window" [ASitS] |
Bump | Meth; Cocaine; Crack | "bruised hips from doin the bump too much" [LiaL]; "things that go bump in the night" [ASitS] |
Buttons | Percocet; Mescaline; Oxy | "We opened up three buttons" [MoC] |
Cake (Yellow Cake); Cakes | Meth; (round discs of) Crack | "the punch is spiked, the soda's flat [see Soda below] and your birthday cake ..." [DStraps]; "So this year skip the birthday cake/ Open flames, they make me nervous" [Holyoke] |
Calvin Klein | Ketamine+Cocaine combination | "She said he tasted like Calvin Klein" [ABlues] (urbandictionary; h/t @skywaywalker , link) |
Candy | Cocaine; Crack; Amphetamine; Depressants | "the candy machine and my girlfriend" [TCMaMG]; "candy's room" [CRoom] |
Chalk | Amphetamine; Meth | "wanna talk about the chick with the chalk outline" [TGatSD] double meaning? |
Cheyenne | Cocaine | "There's nothing quite like a Cheyenne sunrise" [CSunrise] |
Chip(s) | Cigs/joints laced with PCP; Heroin | "Chips Ahoy!" [CA]; "Wipe that chip right off your shoulder" [CSunrise] (compare powdered drugs on shoulders in CRoom) |
Christine/Christina | Meth | "Christine / She says 'Let's move to the city / Stay up all night, live the high life'" [Christine] |
Christmas Tree(s) | Marijuana; Adderall; Amphetamine; Meth | "cause everyone was throwing out their Christmas tree" [TLTtSTtM] |
Chunk(y) | Marijuana; Amphetamine | "i like some funky [see Funk below] drums but i hate some chunky drummers" [SH1999] |
Cinnamon | Meth | "When the band played Sally Cinnamon" [TMIT]; "Vetiver and cinnamon" [ASitS] (a combination for shampoo, perfume, etc. see PHARMACY GOODS below) |
Circles | Rohypnol | "The circles have sucked in her eyes" [LID]; "You can turn the circles yeah and I can pull the parking brake" [CitM] |
Clear | Meth | "makin me crystal [see Crystal below] clear" [Rental]; "most nights are crystal clear" [SBS]; "blazing trails [see Trails below] and cutting clear" [Holyoke ("blaze" and "cut" also both drug terms, see ONDCP document)] |
Cloud | Crack | "she walks out of the crowd, her vision's kinda cloudy" [TLaDiLBI]; "every time the clouds roll in" [Epaulets (for "roll in/roll over" of the effect of drugs, see RtF, RH)] |
Coast-to-coasts | Amphetamine | "But I guess we went coast to coast" [A&H]; not clearly a drug reference, but unusual choice of words, rhyme with 'ghost' [see Ghost below], and "burned a hole in me" suggests it might be for sake of drug allusion |
Coffee; Biker's Coffee | Meth and coffee; Cocaine; Marijuana | "Crushing butts in a coffee can" [C&N]; "two cups of coffee and ten packs of sugar [see Sugar below]" [CatCT]; "Packed in coffee grounds and wrapped around in dryer sheets [see Sheets below]" [MoC] |
Coke | Cocaine | "your cokey kisses in the tunnel of love they taste like black ice" [RtF] |
Cola | Cocaine; Marijuana | "Pensacola parties hard with poppers, pills and Pepsi" [KP] |
Colorado Rockies | Meth | "Went down on the Denver slums and she woke up in the Rocky Mountain dawn" [MM]; "He was dreadlocked in the dorms in the Colorado corn" [GLS] |
Cooler | Cigarette laced with a drug | "drippin wet with white wine cooler" [HDaD]; "I kept it cool in coolers and I drank until I dreamed" [MPADJs] |
Cotton | Oxycontin | "She's crying 'cause the cotton looks like clouds [see Cloud above]" [Epaulets] |
Crank | Amphetamine; Meth (but see also Cranking Up, "To inject a drug," in ONDCP list) | "crank up your amps [see Amp(s) above], man" [LPvtEotE]; "and the prophet to my left ... stays up on crystal meth/ and he cranks out these sacred texts and rubber checks" [Brokerdealer GMBMB] |
Cream | Meth | "we're all just sitting dreaming and applyin cream on our abrasions" [LDoL] |
Credit Card | Crack stem | "a fake name, an airplane [see Airplane above], a credit card, a rental car" [Rental]; "credit card chicks takin cash advances" [TCMaMG] |
Crystal | Meth | "Sniffing at crystal in cute little cars" [OftC]; "and some kind of crystal container" [YDGK]; "a left arm on the treble clef and the right arm on the crystal meth" [4Dix]; "stays up on crystal meth" [Brokerdealer GMBMB]; "Militia men cooking up a batch of the crystal meth" [Knuckles] |
Crosses | Amphetamine | "There were crosses and crushes and crashes and hassles" [A&H] etc. |
Crumb(le(s)) | Crumble=Marijuana concentrates, Crumbs=bits of crack | "And the crumbles and the ashes [see Ashes above] that settled in her purse" [Be Honest] etc. |
Curley Hair | Heroin | "before the trash got crucified, they loaded up on those curly fries [see Fry below]" [LPvtEotE]; "Hot Fries" [HF] |
D | LSD; PCP; Dilaudid | "I've been trying to get people to call me Sunny D/ 'Cause I got the good stuff [see Good Stuff below] kids go for" [Knuckles] |
Diamond(s) | Amphetamine, Meth | "he's talkin 'bout the diamonds and where we can find them and who we can sell em to and stuff like that" [NN]; "diamonds in the drain" [GLS, A&H]; "some jack of diamonds" [DStraps] etc. |
Dice | Crack | "pointing at the guys in the dice game" [TMG]; "he's got a place called the nice nice that he won rollin dice dice" [FstBR] |
Diet Coke | Ritalin | "said i just need a little diet cola, or maybe just a little lifter puller" [TLaDiLBI] |
Dolls | Amphetamines; Depressants; Ecstasy/MDMA | "She stuck around with all those stickpin dolls" [PP]; compare "half dead and dynamite [see Dynamite below]" [HDaD, TFatBR] with "now half the kids are dead/ and the other half are dressed up like dolls" [Brokerdealer TDOLLD] |
Domes | LSD | "now we live in domes" [SCity] |
Dominoes | Amphetamine | "the domino effect/ it's a thing that kills the kids/ when the kids get kind of wrecked" [MCIGOaCT] |
Downtown | Heroin | "and these downtown girls are fast and loose" [DStraps]; "i'm shaking in the downtown" [SBackwards] |
Drink | PCP | "drink" as a noun is almost always explicitly spiked: "purple drinks were dynamite" [PSunglasses]; "her tongue it turned blue from the tropical drinks" [SdS]; "the drinks taste like pantene" [NN]; "the crazy fruity drinks you made" [TMS]; "We put our mouths up to some dangerous drinks" [SM] |
Dust | Marijuana laced with cocaine/heroin/PCP | "don't it all feel like one big game with the lights and the dust and the security" [Bloomington]; "there's dust in these drum fills" [LGI]; explicit reference to laced joint (see ONDCP "Dusting") in "I've been dusted in the dark" [YLHF] |
Dynamite | Cocaine laced with Heroin | "those purple drinks were dynamite" [PSunglasses]; "Scoping out some dynamite and seeing if it detonates" [CitM] |
E | Ecstasy | "The rushing nightclubbers, the free E, the lovers" [LGI alt lyrics] |
Engines | Heroin | "It was always arousing when they'd rev up their engines" [OftC]; "Sped [see Speed below] through the scene until the engine stalled" [PP]; "Check the engine. Change the oil [see Oil below]" [BSam] |
Eye Glasses | Meth | "she's takin off my glasses and i've only seen her once before without em" [LEye] (parallel with "she's taking off her makeup"; they're getting sober) |
Fast | Meth | "Juanita ... wants to feel just a little faster" [11AF]; "She said that she was coming but she mostly just made hard fast noises" [GLS]; "it all came up like super fast ... fire trucks [see Truck below] never have to say they're sorry" [MMitL] |
Fields | LSD | "I guess there's fields of speed where there's fields of grain" [DLME] |
Fingers | cut-off fingers of surgical gloves used to package drugs | "she's got the fingerless gloves, she's got the nails done up in the nasal drugs" [RTF]; "finger on finger on finger on and now we're gone" [MM]; "Criminal Fingers" [CF] (reference to dealing as well as turning over to cops) |
Fish | Cocaine | "took an Irish car bomb/ took a Mexican quaalude ... took Swedish fish" [Brokerdealer TDOLLD] |
Fives | Amphetamine | "yeah these hesher guys are trying to give me high fives" [Viceburgh] |
Footballs | Xanax; Amphetamine | "If you get tired of your football friends," compare "you don't have to deal with the dealers" [YCMHLY]; "don't wear those push-up pants to the football dance" [TPatP] (see DANCING above) |
Flake | Cocaine; PCP; Meth | "Kevlar vests against the crystal flakes" [Knuckles]; "Silver metal flake up on Lyndale and Lake" [R&T] |
Floss | LSD | "the flossy gangsters, the gangster floozies" [LDoL] |
Freeze | Cocaine | "11th Avenue Freezeout" [11AF] |
Fresh | PCP | "they're minty [see Mint Leaf; Mint Weed below] fresh and fucking gorgeous" [Bears] |
Fry | Marijuana laced with PCP | "before the trash got crucified, they loaded up on those curly [see Curley Hair above] fries" [LPvtEotE]; "Hot Fries" [HF] |
Fruit | Meth | "the fruits they flared in the flames" [TCMaMG] etc. |
Funk (G-Funk, P-Funk) | Meth, Heroin | compare "I like some funky drums" [SH1999] with "there's dust [see Dust above] in these drum fills" [LGI] and also "things that sound the way that James Brown sings the sex machine" [SCity] linking drugs+sex |
Ghost | LSD | "But I guess he might have been that ghost" [A&H]; not clearly a drug reference, but unusual choice of words, rhyme with 'coast to coast' [see Coast-to-coasts above], and "burned a hole in me" suggests it might be for sake of drug allusion |
Gin | Cocaine | "and she was bombed on the bass and the bombay gin" [SH1999]; "getting loose with the gin and juice" [11AF] |
Glass | Meth | "she says i'm scratched up on glass" [TCMamG] |
Good Stuff | High potency drug, esp. marijuana | "I've been trying to get people to call me Sunny D [see D above] / 'Cause I got the good stuff kids go for" [Knuckles] |
Gold | Crack; Marijuana | "all the gold that you're holdin in your hands" [SGS]; "Solid Gold Sole" [SGS]; "All the little fillies at the Yukon Club/ Are gunning for the goldrush" [SPayne] etc. |
Grass | Marijuana | "learned to dance to the mountain song out on that grass" [SCity]; "woke up in the grass with the assless chaps" [SH1999] |
Green | Marijuana; Ketamine; PCP | "they did the 'green eyed lady' [see also Green-eyed girl below] right into the 'lay lady lay'" [HDaD] |
Green-eyed girl | Marijuana | "they did the 'green eyed lady' [see also Green above] right into the 'lay lady lay'" [HDaD] |
H | Heroin | "the h and the k, the way we get with every guy that we meet" [LDoL] |
Hail | Crack | "blackened foil is like boils and hail" [CatCT] |
Hard, Hard Rock | Crack | "almost snorted you accidentally/ swallowed hard into relative obscurity" [4Dix]; "we're hot soft spots on a hard rock planet" [MPADJs]; "Lord, what do you prescribe to a real soft girl who's having real hard times?" [CC]; "Windows [see Windows below] wide open to let the hard rock in" [OftC] |
Hardware | Isobutyl Nitrite; Inhalants | "took the handjob at the hardware store" [Hardware] |
Hats | LSD | "and the punch is spiked, the soda's flat [see Soda below] and your birthday cake [see Cake above] and all your party hats" [Double Straps] |
Hearts | Amphetamine | "Arms and hearts and alcohol and death" [A&H]; "Kids with broken hearts, kids with broken bones [see Bones above]/ Kids with kidney stones [see Stones below]" [BBlues] |
Heaven | Cocaine; Heroin | "It's poison/ First it feels like a prick and then it hits you like a jumbo jet/ It's heaven" [FB] (compare also Paradise below) |
Horse | Heroin | "wild horses can't carry away california divorces" [LQ] (already a drug reference in Stones original) |
Ice | Meth | "when night club dwight starts to talk about the ice he ain't talkin 'bout the frozen water" [NN] etc. |
Ice Cream | Meth | "We were kissing in the center while the band played 'ice cream castles'" [A&H] |
Issues | Crack | "she's got the action, you've got the issues" [LiaL] |
J | Marijuana (joint) | "she said hey my name's juanita [see Juanita below] but the guys they call me ll [see LL below] cool j" [CaAoC] |
Jam | Amphetamine; Cocaine | "we got all hopped up on some heavy jams" [Brokerdealer MCIGOaCT]; "You came into the ER drinking gin [see Gin above] from a jam jar" [SN] compare "moonshine in mason jars" [SdS] |
Jet; Jet K | Ketamine | "every time the jets fly over, pretty little overdoser" [PSunglasses]; "It's poison, first it feels like a prick and then it hits you like a jumbo jet" [FB]; "we're the jet lag\ we're the dime bags" [LDoL] |
Jet Fuel | PCP | "I've kissed and I've cackled with half of these jackals. Still couldn't get any jet fuel" [DHaircut] |
Juanita | Marijuana | "and hey, juanita, well i sold you out" [SWH] etc. |
Juice | PCP | "Getting loose with the gin [see Gin above] and juice" [11AF] |
Jungle Juice | Marijuana | "and the positive youth's shootin hoops slippin roofies in your jungle juice" [NN] |
Junk | Cocaine; Heroin | "you always get a good price, you sure get some good junk" [SBackwards]; "and the scumbags on the junk jags and the rock rags" [LDoL] etc. ("jag"=keep a high going; ondcp streetlightpublications.net/misc/ondcp.htm) |
K | Klonopin; Ketamine | "the h and the k, the way we get with every guy that we meet" [LDoL]; "now we just call her k" [KatKH] |
Killer | Marijuana laced with PCP | "Killer parties almost killed me" [KP] etc. |
Kools | PCP | "kool NYC/ coughin up that new york city kool" [KNYC] |
Late Night | Cocaine | "listen up late night girls and late night boys/ these late night lifestyles lead to a late twenties null and void" [INFHP] |
Lazers | Psilocybin Mushrooms | "and you're hooking up the laser show/ we can use a couple visuals" [RfLB] |
Leaf | Cocaine; Marijuana | "the maple leaf rag" [BiB] |
Lemonade | Heroin | "the liquid [see Liquid below] tan [see Tan below] and lemonade, made love to the waiting game" [TMS] |
Liberties | Psilocybin Mushrooms | "loving all their liberties" [LQ] |
Lifesaver | Heroin | "sucking off skyscrapers, living on lifesavers baby" [Viceburgh] |
Light | Meth | "and i like the lights and i like em pretty bright" [ILtL]; "the bright lights always pick me up" [TGatSD] compare "she only takes the pick-me-uppers" [SM]; "stuff to pick you up" [Emperor]; "At first it kind of picked up the party" [ASitS] |
Line | Cocaine | "your party lines and all your drinking games and eveybody's smokin off the very same flame" [DStraps] |
Lightning | Amphetamine | "They’re fooling around with thunder [see Thunder below] and lightning" [ASitS] |
Liquid [Liquid E, Liquid X] | GHB | "liquid soap [see Soap below] won't get you completely clean" [JBS]; "the dancer overdid it with the liquid tan [see Tan below]" [LDoL, also MTape, TMS, TFatBR] |
LL | Marijuana | "she said hey my name's juanita [see Juanita above] but the guys they call me ll cool j [see J above]" [CaAoC] |
Magic | PCP | "Waving Marlboros like magic wands" [MM] (laced cigarette), "dwight's a magician, he gets sensible people makin' terrible decisions" [SSC] |
Mary | Marijuana | "Hail Mary, full of grace" [BCrosses] |
Mazpan | Heroin | "Making meals [see Meal below] out of marzipan" [C&N]; resemblance of "mazpan" to "marzipan" not likely to be a coincidence, compare Stop Signs, Subs below. |
Meal | Heroin | "Making meals out of marzipan [see Mazpan above]" [C&N]; not likely to be a coincidence, compare Stop Signs, Subs below. |
Menthol | Heroin | "in the back mackin pack after pack of twenty menthols" [KNYC] |
Mickey | Tranquilizer (knockout drug) | "mick's tape" [MTape]; "sandy [see Sand below], sticky [see Stick below], baby mickey did the miss you" [LiaL] ("mickey" gdict, "mickey finn" gdict) |
Mint Leaf; Mint Weed | PCP | "they're minty fresh [see Fresh above] and fucking gorgeous" [Bears] |
Moon; Quarter Moon | Mescaline; Hashish | "to the light of the crescent moon, to the tune of the 2 live crew" [TLaDiLBI] |
Mud | Heroin | "and we were slipping on the frozen mudslides" [HDaD]; "Mud on the mattress" [OwtB]; "Like a sneaker in the Mississippi mud" [RH] |
Nail | Marijuana (joint) | "she's got the nails done up in the nasal drugs" [RTF]; "i'm nailed to the nightlife like christ on the cross" [LPvtEotE] (compare "killer parties" [see Killer above]), "do me nails" [Brokerdealer DMN] (spiked joints) |
Noise | Heroin | "When they kiss they spit white noise" [FN]; compare "i gave him fifty and he kissed me, spit a little treat between my teeth" [SSC] |
OC | Oxycodone | "when they say they're looking around for the OC they ain't talking about the TV" [FB] |
Oil | Heroin; PCP | "Check the engine [see Engines above]. Change the oil" [BSam] |
Oranges | Amphetamine; Suboxone | "And I was looking for an orange grove" [Langelos] etc. |
Paint | Meth; Cocaine | "put on the paint it black, shrug off her shoulder straps" [SdS]; "He had a painters cap, it said 'Panama Jack'" [HM]; "woke up in a bed with a spray-painted mattress" [YDGK] |
Paper | <0.1 gram of Meth | "i said mister, can i please just have this paper" [JBS] (working gangsters for drugs at parties), "the papercut tongue from lickin on the centerfolds" [BiB] |
Parachute | Crack and PCP smoked, heroin | "And I saw some kid pissing on his parachute pants" [Star18] (clothing concealing drugs) |
Paradise | Cocaine | "C-9 is for the making eyes, it's Paradise By The Dashboard Light" [CSongs] (refers to customers in cars making eye contact with Jesse the drug house "waitress"; see also WCGT [compare Heaven above]) |
Paste | Crack | "i'm getting off at the place where the boys all taste like paste" [MTape] |
Pearls | Amyl nitrite | "with their filthy mouths and their long strings of pearls" [LiaL] |
Peter Pan | PCP | "peter panned into nyc took the non-stop night into gay paris" [LiaL] (more evidence of this will appear as we get further) |
Pillow | Cocaine | "she's perched atop the pillow in her booth" [TCMaMG] |
Pink | Meth | "and we were dripping wet with pink zinc oxide" [HDaD]; "pock marked pervs and the pink piranhas" [TCMaMG] (dealer gangsters), "she blows blasts [see Blast above] of static into music from the big pink" [TMIT] |
Pony | Crack | "and it starts out with pony bags/ and it ends up on scales [see Scales below]" [TLOUBL] |
Poppers | Meth; Amphetamine | "Pensacola parties hard with poppers, pills and Pepsi" [KP] |
Poppy | Heroin | "rockin sloppy on the poppies" [HDaD] |
Powder | Any drug in powdered form, incl. PCP for dusting, Meth, Amphetamine, etc. | "cops got him with a pocket full of powder" [SWH], "you'll be covered up in powdered drugs" [CRoom] |
Puffy | PCP | "Princess came to breakfast looking puffy from the Prednisone" [CitM] |
Purple | Ketamine; Meth | "swimming pool had purple lights [see Lights above]" [PSunglasses]; "the purple mountain majesty yielded the sugar mountain prophecy" [Brokerdealer MCIGOaCT]; "There were purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain" [A&H] |
Regular Kind | Cocaine | "got a tape deck, not the regular kind" [SWH] |
Quicksilver | Isobutyl nitrite/nhalants - but Craig uses to refer to meth, see R&T | "at dawn I had to crawl back home through the quicksilver sprawl" [Star18]; "Silver metal flake up on Lyndale and Lake" [R&T] |
Rainbow(s) | LSD; Barbiturates | "we'll wake up tomorrow in the parking lot at rainbow" [SCity] (promise of getting high together) |
Red(s) | Meth | "wasted on red, white [see White below] and blue [see Blue above] and the american flag and the maple leaf rag" [BiB]; "I blew red white [see White below] and blue [see Blue above] right into a tissue [see Tissue below]" [Swish] |
Rest In Peace | Crack | "They wrote her name in magic marks on stop signs [see Stop Signs below] and subway cars [see Subs below] ... Hallelujah, rest in peace" [HaRRF]; not likely to be a coincidence, compare Meal, Mazpan above. |
Rims | Meth; Percocet; Cocaine | "I believe in salt [see Salt below] along the rims of the glasses" [212M]; "salted rims and frosted mugs" [Spinners] |
Roach | Rohypnol | "they've got roach clips in their hair" [TGatSD]; clearly a marijuana reference, but with the roofies implication made explicit |
Rock(s) | Meth; Crack | "keep these rocks inside these socks" [SCity]; "when night club dwight starts to talk about gettin some rocks" [NN] etc. |
Rocky Mountain | Cocaine | "Went down on the Denver slums and she woke up in the Rocky Mountain dawn" [MM]; "I was on a Rocky Mountain freedom binge" [C&N] |
Rolling/Rolls | Ecstasy | "Juanita thinks she's a roller rink" [11AF], "these kids want something new to get their eyes rollin back into their dreams" [LGI]; "rock and roll problems" [RP]; "rock [see Rock above] and roll club" [GoaH] |
Roofies | Rohypnol | "and the positive youth's shootin hoops slippin roofies in your jungle juice" [NN] |
Rope | Rohypnol | "and we walked between these velvet ropes, went straight for the bathroom soap [see Soap below]" [JBS]; "lit up like a dance floor, driving down the turnpike, hope the ropes aren't too tight" [Emperor]; "When she was mostly in the phone booth at the end of her rope" [Eureka] |
Ruby | Heroin | "I used to walk around with rubies in my shoes" [TAvenue] |
Rush | Cocaine; Isobutyl initrite/Inhalants | "dude looks like jesus but sleeveless, says he's into rush and reckless chemistry" [LGI] |
Salt | Meth; Heroin | "I believe in salt along the rims [see Rims above] of the glasses" [212M]; "salted rims and frosted mugs" [Spinners] |
Sand | Heroin | "sat down and shook the sand from their shoes, took off their suits and they started to move" [TLaDiLBI]; "sandy, sticky [see Stick below], baby mickey [see Mickey above] did the miss you" [LiaL] |
Scales | Crack | "and it starts out with pony bags [see Pony above]/ and it ends up on scales" [TLOUBL] |
Scoop | GHB | "i've got two big scoops" [SWH]; this one's not obvious, but see APPREHENSION below. |
Seven-Up | Crack | "A question posed to all the white druggy ravers:/ 'Hey neighbor, what happens when the speed is gone?'/ We sped through seven straight blondes./ And woke up in 7-up" [LGI alt lyrics] |
Shade | Heroin; Marijuana? | "she slips the shade inside her shoes" [SGS] (see SHOES AND SOCKS above, and compare "solid gold [see Gold above] sole"), "Hotel room in Houston with the shades against the sunshine [see Sunshine below]" [EC] (bad sourcing, but see urbandictionary) |
Sheets | PCP | "woke up in heat stuck to her red rubber sheets" [SdS]; "They danced around they drank a little and then they hit the sheets" [Brokerdealer DMN]; "The sheets stain but the sins wash away" [SK]; "Packed in coffee grounds [see Coffee above] and wrapped around in dryer sheets" [MoC] |
Sherman(s); Sherm(s) | Marijuana laced with PCP | "Sherman City" [SCity]; "last dance and somebody must've slipped me a sherman" [HDaD] |
Shrimp | Marijuana | "and those pimps with the shrimps from the blimpie up on 5th street" [TFatBR] |
Sketch | Meth | "Sketchy Metal" [SM]; "I bet your next party gets sketchy" [CSunrise] |
Six; TR-6 | Amphetamine | "they pulled the six from their shoes, spilled the blues [see Blue above] from his hatband" [LDoL] |
Smoke | Crack; Marijuana | "we went down on the smoke machine" [SdS]; "blowin smoke in the post-show afterglow" [BiB] |
Snow | Cocaine | "and her dome's the dome that always snows" [SCity] |
Soap | Meth; GHB | "i'm getting off at the coast where the boys all taste like soap" [MTape]; "we walked between these velvet ropes [see Rope above]; went straight for the bathroom soap" [JBS]; "hey soap suds, you know you're way too quick to fall in love" [RtF]; "Hey soapdish you know you're way too pissed about the drugs" [RtF alt lyrics] |
Soda | Cocaine; Heroin | "saw you sweating on the corner you were sucking off a soda" [Bears] |
Sparkle | Meth | "everything sparkles and appears like we're on wheels [see Wheels below]" [TSPotC]; "trying to talk some sense into our sparkling hearts [see Hearts above]" [OWL]; "went straight for the bathroom soap [see Soap above]/ ried to make ourselves clean/ tried to make ourselves sparkle" |
Special K | Ketamine | "she says hey my name's katrina but my friends call me special k" [HDaD] |
Speed | Amphetamine; Meth | "says she really likes the speedy drugs" [TGatSD]; "it was St Paul bars and St Cloud speed" [INFHP] (etc.) |
Spicy Kind | Amphetamine; Meth | "she came off kind of spicy but she tasted like those pickle chips" [BBlues] |
Squirrel | Marjiuana laced with PCP, sprinkled with Cocaine | "every time i chase a squirrel it rips apart my world" [SCity] |
Star | Amphetamine | "star wars" [SWH] (characterization of the story as a war about drugs) |
Stems | Marijuana | "Pulled a stem from his sleeve and said try one of these" [ASitS] |
Stick; Sticky | Marijuana laced with PCP | "Don't come home/ With a stick in your nose" [11AF]; "sticky summer in the barrio" [Bears]; "the sticky sharks and the steamy saunas" [TCMaMG]; "sandy [see Sand above], sticky, baby mickey [see Mickey above] did the miss you" [LiaL]; "six stick tweakers [see Tweak below]" [Brokerdealer TLOUBL] |
Stones | Crack | "Kids with broken hearts [see Hearts above], kids with broken bones [see Bones above]/ Kids with kidney stones" [BBlues] |
Stop Signs | Suboxone | "They wrote her name in magic marks on stop signs and subway cars [see Subs below] ... Hallelujah, rest in peace [see Rest In Peace above]" [HaRRF]; not likely to be a coincidence, compare Meal, Mazpan above. |
Strawberry | LSD | "you spent the summer at the strawberry stand" [TPatP] |
Stuff | Meth | "i've got stuff to pick you up" [Emperor]; "stuff that gets them slippin in the shower" [Manpark]; "Touch My Stuff" [TMS] |
Subs | Suboxone | "They wrote her name in magic marks on stop signs [see Stop Signs] and subway cars ... Hallelujah, rest in peace [see Rest In Peace above]" [HaRRF]; not likely to be a coincidence, compare Meal, Mazpan above. |
Sugar | Cocaine; Heroin | "but they don't stick the sugar packets inside" [Viceburgh]; "woke up in the Sugar Mountain pines" [MM]; "The kids are ripping into sugar packets" [OWL]; "two cups of coffee [see Coffee above] and ten packs of sugar" [CatCT] |
Sunshine | LSD | "Hotel room in Houston with the shades [see Shade above] against the sunshine" [EC] ("the shades against the sunshine"="the speed against the sedatives" [Eureka]), "The way it washed [see Wash below] over, it was warm like the sunshine" [Dennis and Billy] |
Sweet Stuff | Cocaine; Heroin | "we had some sweet stuff tucked into our socks" [CiS] |
Sweets | Amphetamine | "Everybody wants to suck on something sweet" [NS]; "sweet baby, suck on this" [MM]; "Sweet Payne" [SPayne] |
Swishers | Marijuana (cigars) | "Swishing though the City Center/ I did a couple favors for these guys who looked like Tusken Raiders" [Swish] |
Tabs | LSD; Ecstasy | "love is just keeping a tab" [BBender] |
Tan | Heroin | "liquid tan" [MTape, TMS, LDoL]; "We did the black [see Black above] and the tans, into the black and the blue" [TMS] |
Tar | Heroin | "mostly it's 3.2 bars and scars and tar" [LDoL] |
Teeth | Cocaine; Crack | "Teeth Dreams" [Teeth Dreams]; "She seemed a little speedy [see Speed above] and her tongue worked at her teeth" [Jackson]; mostly "teeth" seems to refer to the needles, not to the drug itself, but these two could be read either way. |
Thunder | Cocaine; Heroin | "and this guy i met he got me high/ and the drum and bass sounds a lot like rollin' thunder" [SSC]; "They’re fooling around with thunder and lightning [see Lightning above]" [ASitS] |
Tires | Meth; Percocet; Heroin | "Screech those tires, yeah and scrape the sides" [11AF] |
Tissue | Crack | "I blew red [see Red above] white [see White below] and blue [see Blue above] right into a tissue" [Swish] |
Trails | Cocaine; LSD | "blazing trails and cutting clear [see Clear above]" [Holyoke ("blaze" and "cut" also both drug terms, see ONDCP document)] |
Trash | Meth | "hey jerky, these trashers seem a little tweaky" [Viceburgh]; "I was a Twin Cities trash bin/ I did everything they'd give me/ I'd jam it into my system" [MPADJs] |
Trees | Heroin; Marijuana | "The trees they turn slowly to smoke" [Oaks]; "buzzing up the wrong tree" [TLTtSTtM] |
Trip-and-Fall | Rohypnol | "slip and trip and hang around" [SBackwards] |
Truck | Meth | "she puts it all into boxes [see Boxes above] on a big truck" [Emperor]; "it all came up like super fast [see Fast above] ... fire trucks never have to say they're sorry" [MMitL] |
Tweak | Meth | "hey jerky, these trashers seem a little tweaky" [Viceburgh]; "roll around with such tweaky creeps" [LDoL] |
Twist | Marijuana (joint) | "Twisting into dark parts of the large midwestern cities" [PJ]; "my one friend got two girls in a twist" [YGD] |
Uppers | Amphetamine; Meth | "She only takes the pick-me-uppers" [SM]; "We were all powered up on some new upper drug" [MN] |
Wash | Meth; Cocaine | "He got all washed up in the amber waves [see Wave below] of grain" [TMIT]; "The way it washed over, it was warm like the sunshine [see Sunshine above]" [Dennis and Billy] |
Water | Meth | "lead the kids into rats, lead the rats to the water" [Manpark]; "took him down around the waterpark" [TMG]; "i know that you really like to waterski" [SH]; "bless the beasts and the children and the water and the waiters" [SM]; "Hey sweet recovery, come on, won't you wade into the water with me" [BCamp] |
Wave | Crack | "He got all washed [see Wash above] up in the amber waves of grain" [TMIT]; "If you want to be saved all it takes is a wave" [Oaks] |
Wheels | Amphetamine; Percoset | "everything sparkles [see Sparkle above] and appears like we're on wheels" [TSPotC] |
White | Heroin; Amphetamine | "wasted on red [see Red above], white and blue [see Blue above] and the american flag and the maple leaf rag" [BiB]; "I blew red [see Red above] white and blue [see Blue above] right into a tissue [see Tissue above]" [Swish] |
White Cross(es) | Amphetamine; Meth | "white cross now you're crumblin like a landslide" [HDaD]; "White crosses and wooden stakes" [Knuckles] |
Window pane | LSD | "there was way too many window panes" [MCIGOaCT] |
Windows | Meth | "let me lick your windows clean, take a clearer look at me" [LE] (getting clean); others seem to be literal references to windows, but consistently in a drug context, making the ambiguity likely, e.g. "Windows wide open to let the hard rock in" [OftC]; "All the times that we saw dawn kick in the windows" [MMarker] |
Wings | Cocaine; Heroin | "keep these wings beneath your baseball hat, you look so cute like that" [DStraps]; "We were wasps with new wings, now we're bugs in a jar" [JaJ] |
Wolf | PCP | "The wolves all started actin kinda sheepish/ Woke up in a bed" [YDGK] |
X | Ecstasy | "a summer wrecked on x and house arrest" [LQ]; "but the x makes me feel sexy and the sex makes me feel empty" [SSC] |
Yayo | Cocaine | "these yayo hoes take off their clothes and try to get me to give them something chemical" [RtF] |