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What a drag it is getting old
"Kids are different today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
"Things are different today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak
And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
"Men just aren't the same today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
They just don't appreciate that you get tired
They're so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
"Life's just much too hard today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
The pusuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose
No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day
In the Rolling stones song "mothers little helper" the reference of mothers little helper is to Valium, and the use of metaphor and repetition further increases the value of what is said. The line "running to the shelter of a mothers little helper" is where the metaphor is although this can be thought of in many different ways, i believe it is either a metaphor for the cabinet that the pills are in or it could be personification calling the pills a sort of safe house in which a mother could run and hide in. This would further the idea that this drug is a feel good drug that may cause happiness from the beginning, and get worse as time goes by. This mother in particular starts off talking one of the pills and slowly goes u and begins taking four at a time, this is implied to be a bad thing of course. The way it seems like an addiction is because she will go to the doctor take four pills and then ask for more of them, each time during the day the amount of pills go up, this directly correlates to addiction. Not only that but with the repetition that is present with "they just helped her on her way, through her busy day." and the change in the end to "your dying day" symbolizes that if they take to many they will probably die, and to make it worse they changes it to you, to make it more personal. He also mentions an overdose, this immediately makes it scarier. Also he ends with the you to kind of say that it could happen to anybody even you, or he could be referring to himself as the one who might take them. This is why addiction's bad.
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
"Things are different today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak
And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
"Men just aren't the same today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
They just don't appreciate that you get tired
They're so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight
Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old
"Life's just much too hard today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
The pusuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose
No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day
In the Rolling stones song "mothers little helper" the reference of mothers little helper is to Valium, and the use of metaphor and repetition further increases the value of what is said. The line "running to the shelter of a mothers little helper" is where the metaphor is although this can be thought of in many different ways, i believe it is either a metaphor for the cabinet that the pills are in or it could be personification calling the pills a sort of safe house in which a mother could run and hide in. This would further the idea that this drug is a feel good drug that may cause happiness from the beginning, and get worse as time goes by. This mother in particular starts off talking one of the pills and slowly goes u and begins taking four at a time, this is implied to be a bad thing of course. The way it seems like an addiction is because she will go to the doctor take four pills and then ask for more of them, each time during the day the amount of pills go up, this directly correlates to addiction. Not only that but with the repetition that is present with "they just helped her on her way, through her busy day." and the change in the end to "your dying day" symbolizes that if they take to many they will probably die, and to make it worse they changes it to you, to make it more personal. He also mentions an overdose, this immediately makes it scarier. Also he ends with the you to kind of say that it could happen to anybody even you, or he could be referring to himself as the one who might take them. This is why addiction's bad.
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