Neil Young has two stoner anthems to his credit, “Roll Another Number For The Road” and this tune, possibly the only good-time songs to emerge during his “dark” era of Tonight’s The Night and On The Beach. It just goes to show: The Beatles were generations ahead of their time from the very beginning. Though many LSD devotees of the 60s were convinced that “Got to Get You Into My Life” from Revolver was a song about a psychedelic experience, Paul McCartney confirmed that the song was nothing more than a cheeky ode to weed. – Sam ArmstrongĢ7: The Beatles – Got to Get You Into My Life He spits, “Still blazin, still blazin, still blazin/Cause ganja power it’s so amazin/give me the strength and protection, keep praisin.” Keep praisin’, indeed. The song finds Wiz – now a ganja entrepreneur – waxing poetic on the wonders of grass. “Still Blazin” is a song about weed from Wiz Khalifa’s most overtly weed-centric album, Kush and Orange Juice. If not, though, a listen to the classic weed song’s first lines spell it out clear as day: “You know I got two states of mind – stoned and asleep/First I hit the sweet leaf, and then I have nice dreams.” Must be nice. If you didn’t know exactly what Kottonmouth Kings were discussing on “4-2-0,” then you may have been born under a rock. Some stations and channels would play “joint” backward when he sung, “let’s roll another joint,” while others would eliminate the word “roll.” NO matter their efforts, though, it was hard to distract from what Petty meant. When Tom Petty first released “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” censors tried desperately to obscure what he was talking about. 30: Tom Petty – You Don’t Know How It Feels
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