I’ve seen the needle
And the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie’s
Like a settin’ sun…
Singer/ Songwriter: Neil Young
At first I thought maybe I should write about that short, ugly bully infesting the male toilets of Ateneo de Manila University and preying on hapless wimps but it seems everyone else is into it so I’ll just give it to them.
I do, however, have a few comments so I’ll just park it here…
Firstly, I agree with Foreign Affairs Secretary and Ambassador to the United Nations Teodoro “Teddyboy” Locsin that the short and ugly bully from Ateneo does not deserve any psychiatric treatment but a traction, meaning he should be beaten senseless; and; JM, that short, ugly bully from Ateneo, is a closet homosexual who beats helpless boys who refuse to kiss his “puti itlog” (that’s “white balls” for you in Ilonggo which means anybody called “puti itlog” is a bloody coward); and Ateneo de Manila is a school where helpless female students are raped in the women’s toilets and produces first-class, no, I mean world-class cowardly closet homosexuals like JM and their greatest yet, former President Noynoy Aquino.
All these happening with Ateneo’s President Jesuit priest Fr. Jet Villarin seemingly turning a blind eye despite reports of these bullying incidents sending one student to the hospital with a fractured jaw.
It seems Fr. Jet Villarin is busy protesting against imaginary EJKs and giving awards to untalented minor blogger Jover Laurio just because she’s a rabid “devotee to the cult of the yellow ribbon” and having selfies with Imelda Marcos while protesting the burial of her husband at the Libingan ng mga Bayani that rape and bully incidents in Ateneo totally escaped his eyes.
And we segue to the topic at hand a very personal song about the consequences of addiction particularly heroin addiction.
Canada is not only Maple syrup, Canadian bacon, Justin Trudeau and garbage they also had some great musicians i.e. Joni Mitchell and our feature Neil Young and one of his poignant songs about heroin addiction…“The Needle and the Damage Done”.
From that free online encyclopedia a.k.a. the internet:
“The Needle and the Damage Done” is a song by Neil Young that describes the destruction caused by the heroin addiction of musicians he knew. Though not specifically about him, the song was inspired by the heroin addiction of his friend and Crazy Horse band mate Danny Whitten. It previews the theme of the ‘Tonight’s the Night’ album that reflects Young’s grief over the heroin overdose and death of both Whitten and Bruce Berry, a roadie for Young and Crazy Horse.
“The Needle and the Damage Done” first appeared on the Harvest album in 1972. Rather than rerecording it, he selected a live version from January 1971 that had him singing and playing acoustic guitar. It appeared on the compilation albums Decade and Greatest Hits. On the handwritten liner notes included in Decade, Young had this to say about the song: “I am not a preacher, but drugs killed a lot of great men.”
It appeared on the 2007 album Live at Massey Hall 1971. The album captured Young’s introduction of his song thus:
Ever since I left Canada, about five years ago or so… and moved down south… found out a lot of things that I didn’t know when I left. Some of ’em are good, and some of ’em are bad. Got to see a lot of great musicians before they happened… before they became famous… y’know, when they were just gigging. Five and six sets a night… things like that. And I got to see a lot of, um, great musicians who nobody ever got to see. For one reason or another. But… strangely enough, the real good ones… that you never got to see was… ’cause of, ahhm, heroin. An’ that started happening over an’ over. Then it happened to someone that everyone knew about. So I just wrote a little song.
It is a poignant and very emotional song and watching Neil Young perform it live with just an acoustic guitar one can really appreciate the pain that goes with losing a friend or a colleague through heroin addiction.
And what is the parallel you may ask, the damage cause by being a victim of bullying and heroin addiction not only affects the victim but his loved ones and the people close to him and the damage is permanent oftentimes fatal./PN
