Mothers Little Helper (
AKA valium)
The Rolling Stones
What a drag it is getting old.
"Kids are different today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day.
"Things are different today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak
And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day.
Doctor, please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old.
"Men just aren't the same today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
They just don't appreciate that you get tired
They're so hard to satisfy. You can tranquilise your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimise your plight.
Doctor,plese, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old.
Life's just much too hard today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose
No more running to the shelter of a mother's little helper
They just helped you on your way through your
---------------------------------------------
I have asked countless people if they were familiar with this Rolling Stones classic, almost all did. I then inquire if they understood what the lyrics meant, almost all didn’t. Mick must have had someone close to him that was prescribed Valium and witnessed the damage it did.
A few years back my sister was looking at the array of pills my mother was taking, she noticed one was Valium, she freaked. My mother had no idea what Valium was, she just took them because the doctor told her to, 30 years ago!. The fucking Doctor(?) had her on an open prescription all this time and never did a follow up. He should be in jail with all the other drug pushers.
This is what Mothers Little Helper was about -
http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,886841,00.html
Here is an excerpt from the following link - Until the appearance of Prozac in the 1980s, Valium was the largest-selling pharmaceutical drug in history. By the middle of the 1970s, more than 60 million Valium prescriptions were written each year. But Valium's unhealthy side was also revealed at that time -- it, too, turned out to be addictive.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/century/episodes/06/currents/
What does this tell us? You don't have to shake down a hooker to uncover drug abuse in this country just look in your mothers purse!
.
