Suicide Solution

Great but often misunderstood song, mainly because people don't bother to listen to the lyrics. Suicide solution is about basically drinking yourself to death, the "solution" being the liquid/drink not "solution" as in the answer to the problem.

Wine is fine but whiskey's quicker
Suicide is slow with liquor
Take a bottle, drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrow's

Evil thoughts and evil doings
Cold, alone you hang in ruins
Thought that you'd escape the Reaper
You can't escape the Master Keeper

'Cause you feel life's unreal and you're living a lie
Such a shame who's to blame and you're wondering why
Then you ask from your cask is there life after birth
What you sow can mean Hell on this earth
Hell on this earth

How some idiot can get those lyrics to mean that suicide solves the problem... I don't know. It's actually incomprehensible. That's probably why the parents back in the 80's claimed "subliminal stimuli" instead, they knew they had nothing to point to so they turned to Voodoo as an explanation. Dimwits.

The topic of drawing the line between a self abusive lifestyle and suicide is interesting to me. Suicide is seen by most of the society as unacceptable but the line blurs as we move out to risky behaviour that will lead to the persons death in one way or the other if it's not stopped. A depressed person who can't stand the pain of life and wants to die has to be stopped, a person who kill the pain of living by drinking too much needs to take responsibility for their life, "get a grip" and move on with it or people might not even see anything wrong with the drinking, it's just a "few" drinks after all.

"Suicide is slow with liquor." I guess that's why drinking yourself to death is acceptable and even seen as "cool", it's not a sudden death. You're not there one day and gone the next, your misery drags on for years and years if you're unlucky.

Being reckless with your life might get you a comment or two about how you should be more careful, but no one will sit you down and talk to you about not committing suicide and taking meds or going to therapy.