The Designers
In the 1990's designer drugs gained a dramatic increase in popularity. These were drugs synthesised to be chemically similar to known narcotic and psychedelic drugs, but sufficiently different to not be controlled and hence, at the time, legal. Some of these drugs were often impure and of dubious quality. One of these drugs, MPPP, was found in some cases to contain an impurity called MPTP, which caused brain damage that could result in a syndrome identical to full-blown Parkinson's disease, from only a single dose.
You walked through the streets in the soft summer rain
Which stroked your cheek like a hand
But you didn't even notice as you brushed it aside
As you walked in a café by the Strand
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And they laid their designs on you
Yes they laid their designs on you
A man in the corner opened his hand
And handed a package to you
You gave him some money and he smiled a strange smile
And said, hey, this stuff is really new
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You hurried home, you just couldn't wait
To find out what they had in store
But you just weren't ready for the explosion of pain
As you fell with a scream to the floor
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You didn't even see the flashing blue light
As the police broke down the door
And you didn't hear your landlady scream
As she saw how you lie on the floor
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They took you to hospital but there was no cure
There was nothing their scalpels could do
The police surgeon said it had been a bad batch
And the poison had paralysed you
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You look out at the window at the soft summer rain
Falling from the translucent sky
You imagine you feel its hand brush your face
As a tear falls from your eye
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