Marcy Playground - Poppies
Long long ago in China I'm told
To England was traded some tea
And so sealed the fate
In pieces of eight
All England and all of the world
Yeah...poppies
When soon his majesty sent
soldiers and thieves
To India searching for gold
Instead from the ground
Some magic they found
Something far better I'm told
Yeah...poppies
Yeah...poppies
And now this story told from
days of our own
When gossamer doggies ran ran
They'd patiently wait
With pieces of eight
So everybody could smile one
Yeah...poppies
Yeah...poppies
live
lyrics gekked from songmeaning.net
As long ago as 100 AD, opium had been used as a folk medicine, taken with a beverage or swallowed as a solid. Only toward the middle of the 17th century, when opium smoking was introduced into China, did any serious addiction problems arise. - Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Center ('Introduced', hymph...)
Sometimes I wonder if there were something about one culture that would make it more vulnerable to a particular addiction than another. Such as alcohol, it was a drink that have existed since ancient times for Pretty Much Everyone...except for the Native Canadians? Have to look that up, habits does affect tolerance after all. Habits...since the written language of the Chinese are made of characters, thus requiring a lot of visual memorization, I wonder how much this affected our minds? Our particular perceptions?
To England was traded some tea
And so sealed the fate
In pieces of eight
All England and all of the world
Yeah...poppies
When soon his majesty sent
soldiers and thieves
To India searching for gold
Instead from the ground
Some magic they found
Something far better I'm told
Yeah...poppies
Yeah...poppies
And now this story told from
days of our own
When gossamer doggies ran ran
They'd patiently wait
With pieces of eight
So everybody could smile one
Yeah...poppies
Yeah...poppies
live
lyrics gekked from songmeaning.net
As long ago as 100 AD, opium had been used as a folk medicine, taken with a beverage or swallowed as a solid. Only toward the middle of the 17th century, when opium smoking was introduced into China, did any serious addiction problems arise. - Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Center ('Introduced', hymph...)
Sometimes I wonder if there were something about one culture that would make it more vulnerable to a particular addiction than another. Such as alcohol, it was a drink that have existed since ancient times for Pretty Much Everyone...except for the Native Canadians? Have to look that up, habits does affect tolerance after all. Habits...since the written language of the Chinese are made of characters, thus requiring a lot of visual memorization, I wonder how much this affected our minds? Our particular perceptions?