# It’s the drug induced paranoia game! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974 "2007-02-05T20:08:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jeffr062](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jeffr062](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffr062)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/1 "2007-02-05T20:08:02Z")
A friend sent me the lyrics for the old song by the Who, \*I Can See For Miles. \*Whenever I think of this song I always get this picture of some strung out junkie saying the lines to his bewildered girlfriend \*I know you’ve deceived me, now here’s a surprise I know that you have 'cause there’s magic in my eyes If you think that I don’t know about the little tricks you’ve played And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way \* Your turn, post the title and lyric sample of a song that sounds like it was written when the author was in the clutches of drug induced paranoia. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/2 "2007-02-05T21:44:46Z")
_Fate—monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain and always fades to nothing, shadowed and veiled you plague me too; now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy._ Courtesy of Carl Orff. (Sounds more like Al Swearengen than Pete Townshend, but hey…) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/3 "2007-02-05T22:24:57Z")
I thought [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)) was the drug induced paranoia game. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/4 "2007-02-05T22:30:46Z")
_It’s almost a feeling you can touch in the air, You look all around you but nobody’s there. It’s been a long time now since you’ve been aware That someone is watching you…(he’s gonna get you)…_ Alan Parsons Project, [The Voice](http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/The-Alan-Parsons-Project/The-Voice.html) ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/5 "2007-02-05T23:31:46Z")
“Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.” [Hehehe](http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/lucysky.htm) ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/6 "2007-02-06T01:31:19Z")
> [@Yes: Close to the Edge](#): > > A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace, > And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace, > And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar, > Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour. Or… well… pretty much anything else by Yes for that matter. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/7 "2007-02-06T02:15:58Z")
Every night I turn the light out waiting for the velvet blind will the scaly armadillo find me where I’m hiding? Will the misty master break me will the key unlock my mind will the following footsteps catch me am I really dying? Pink Floyd-Julia Dream ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/8 "2007-02-06T03:05:03Z")
Here are the complete lyrics from the 1970’s/80’s CDN Art Rock Band “Klaatu”. The name of the song is , of course “Paranoia” and I think it is from Their “Sir Army Suit” Album (1981?) Paranoia Oooh lately when I’m talking I’ve been talking to myself My friends say they don’t notice but they do 'cause I can tell I wake up mad every morning and I go to bed mad at night My mind ain’t functioning poorly but it sure ain’t feeling right No it sure ain’t feeling right (chorus) Paranoia I feel you creeping through my soul yeah Paranoia I feel you taking complete control oh Paranoia You got me running all the time paranoia Paranoia Oh what a pitiful state of mind I went to see my doctor I told him I’d been feeling blue He shook his head and simply said ain’t nothing he could do Well my head aches with apprehension 'til I can’t take any more pain If I don’t get some attention soon I think I’ll go insane Yes I think I’ll go insane (chorus) Don’t know how long I’ve been this way My mind is so confused It seems the whole world’s after me No matter what I do No I can’t remember when it’s ever been this bad But lately I’ve had feelings that I never knew I had Delusions of persecution haunt me My one companion is fear And there’s always someone behind me when I check my rear view mirror I’d better check my rear view mirror (chorus) The perfect song for this thread, I think… Regards FML ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/9 "2007-02-06T03:32:37Z")
Because something is happening here But you don’t know what it is Do you, Mister Jones? – “Ballad of a Thin Man”, Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/10 "2007-02-06T05:57:59Z")
Warts loved my nipples because they are pink Vomit on me, baby Yeah Yeah Yeah. A blind man’s penis is erect because he’s blind It’s erect because he’s blind A blind man’s penis is erect because he’s blind It’s erect because he is blind _Blind Man’s Penis (Peace & Love)_ By John Trubee ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-the-drug-induced-paranoia-game/390974/11 "2007-02-06T09:15:46Z")
One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don’t do anything at all Go ask Alice When she’s ten feet tall **White Rabbit** , by the **Jefferson Airplane** And the refrain is “Feed your head”.