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Ode to Sobriety
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A song that inverts Ode to Intoxication, sometimes softly, sometimes far more harshly. These usually come in one of three forms: The "Deconstructed Ode to Intoxication" Ode to Sobriety would be an Ode to Intoxication except the song is about the singer's (or writer's) near-death from an OD, an addiction he or she actually wants to escape or has gone into treatment for, someone's suicide from alcohol and/or other drugs, (on the lighter side) how embarrassing people act while drunk, or about anything else that is on the less fun side of intoxication. The "Drugs Are Bad" Ode to Sobriety is usually engaged in by Straight Edge bands or artists, though others can occasionally do it (a common instance with non-Straight Edge artists is generally focused on a specific substance). As opposed to the ambivalent, bitter reflections of the Deconstructed Ode to Intoxication, it is simply Drugs Are Bad as a song. It's a condemnation/callout of a specific substance and/or its users, and/or of alcohol or other drug use in general. The "Glad to Be Sober" Ode to Sobriety results from an artist successfully overcoming an addiction or quitting an abusive pattern of alcoholism or other drug use — and writing a song about how good being sober and free of said addiction is. It differs from the bitter Deconstructed Ode to Intoxication in that it's a Lighter and Softer topic (e.g. happiness about a drug-free life) as opposed to a Grimdark one (e.g. about almost dying from an OD) and from the Drugs Are Bad song in that it's not a rant about how bad drugs are. Given human nature, many an Ode to Sobriety is sung as a Drunken Song. (The Irish folk song "The Wild Rover"—about a man giving up his wild drinking ways—is very popular in pubs.) Compare Addiction Song. |
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Dream Theater's Twelve-Step Suite is somewhere between this and "Drugs Are Bad", except it's more a case of Earn Your Happy Ending than "Glad to Be Sober" since it explicitly details the often excruciating process of recovery. | |
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Neil Diamond's "The Pot Smoker's Song": As Neil sings a cheery, jingle-like chorus extolling the virtues of marijuana ("pot, pot, gimme some pot / forget who you are, you can be who you're not"), patients of a rehab center give Spoken Word in Music testimonials about how pot was their gateway to stronger drugs. | |
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"Demon Alcohol", an ode to Ozzy Osbourne's own struggle with alcoholism. | |
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The Beautiful South's "Liars' Bar" which serves "rum by the kettledrum, whisky by the jar" and has the sort of clientele which encourage sobriety - even if you don't take them as a horrible warning, then certainly so you don't have to hang out with them. | |
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"Honey, I'm Good." by Andy Grammer, with the singer saying he could have a drink, but he'd rather not or else he might cheat on his partner, but that it won't be hard for the girl at the bar to find some other drunk fool to take home. | |
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"xanny", by Billie Eilish, where she complains about her friends spending all their time under the influence of alcohol and other drugs while she abstains: | |
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Sia's "Chandelier" starts off with a party girl bragging about her hard-drinking ways. But halfway through the chorus, it turns dark and the party girl sings about how she's just "holding on". The second verse has her hungover. | |
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"Greg's Drinking Song" from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is sung in the style of an Irish drinking song, but the lyrics are about all about the terrible things Greg used to do when he'd get drunk, from puking on his cat to crashing his friend's cars to trying to get into the cockpit so he could fly a plane (and getting banned from North West as a result). | |
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