Saw a video of Massive Attack, Live with Me (from Bristol, UK). The video basically starts with a women in her late 20s or early 30s coming out of work on a regular work day. She drops by a liquor store and buys some beer and a bottle of vodka. She gets to her apartment and starts drinking the beer, finds that she prefers the bottle of vodka, starts drinking....finishes drinking the whole bottle and rans out of her apartment, walking drunk and roaming the streets to later find herself asleep on a park bench...
This video gets me thinking about the pain and suffering that sometimes invades my soul and that drinking is not a solution. I have lived through this in New York City in 2001 and in London in 2006, thank God I didnt end up on a park bench. Drinking just merely soothes our selfbeing for a couple of hours, only to find that afterwards our emotions are just stronger and bolder. Its like craving water and drinking sand to quench the thrist...it only gets worse! Alcohol can be a social lubricator but in deed is not a solution in itself...
Kudos to Massive Attack!...And to Terry Callier (US Jazzist and friends with Curtis Mayfield) who sings the vocals on this great track
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