9 Songs About Overdosing
Overdosing is when you take more than the normal or recommended amount of something, often a drug. It may result in serious health consequences and sometimes death. Below is a list of songs about overdosing:
1. The Weeknd – Alone Again
The song is off the album After Hours. It addresses Abel’s substance abuse issue and overdose scare. He asks his lover to remind him of who he is and draw him out of his problem.
2. Demi Lovato – Dancing With The Devil
The track dives into Demi’s struggle with addiction and touches on her near-fatal overdose back in July 2018.
3. NF – How Could You Leave Us
NF questions his mother’s sudden departure in death. She had an addiction to pills which caused her to overdose thus taking her own life. NF also shares the heartbreaking moments he was able to share with her.
4. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Kevin
This was an emotional tribute to his friend Kevin who overdosed on prescription medication back in 2010. Macklemore, a recovering addict, highlighted his own struggle.
5. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Otherside
The track deals with drug use in the rap industry and uses Pimp as an example. He died after overdosing on cough syrup in 2007.
6. Baroness – March To The Sea
The narrator has lost someone to heroin overdose.
7. Grandson – Overdose
The track is about the effect drugs have on an individual, how they are used to escape pain, dependency and ultimately leading addicts to overdose as they try to chase the same high they got initially. It is told from the viewpoint of an addicted individual.
8. Eminem – Deja Vu
Eminem takes his listeners into the mindset of an addict with the type of story that can only be so painfully honest from his own experience. He overdosed back in 2007 and woke up in the hospital after he was found on the bed.
9. Brad Paisley feat Alison Kraus – Whiskey Lullaby
The track follows the life of a broken-hearted man who busted his wife cheating on him. He turned to alcohol to try and drown her memory away but ended up dying of alcohol poisoning.