Music Monday – “All this talk of getting old/It’s getting me down my love/Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown/This time I’m coming down”

If you’re in a British band called “The Libertines” and have a lifelong history of battling drug addiction, this is a perfect song to cover in a stripped down acoustic form…

Peter Doherty strips “The Drugs Don’t Work” back until there is almost nowhere for the song to hide. Richard Ashcroft wrote one of The Verve’s most emotionally direct songs around grief and the helplessness of watching someone you love deteriorate, and Doherty’s fragile delivery… pic.twitter.com/yShiwzLfNg

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“The Drugs Don’t Work” – Pete Doherty