Allusions in Other Artists' Songs
Echo & the Bunnymen's 1980 song, "Villiers Terrace," includes the line, "There's people rolling 'round on the carpet/Mixin' up the medicine."
The Gaslight Anthem's song "Angry Johnny and the Radio", from their 2007 album Sink or Swim, includes the lines "And I'm still here singin', thinking about the government" and "Are you hidin' in a basement, mixin' up the medicine?"
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Bloom awhile, then fade and die.”
—Unknown. “Hail ye sighing sons of sorrow,” l. 13-16, Social and Campmeeting Songs (1828)