UB40's "The Pillow" alternates between two voices describing addiction, rehab, and family breakdown. One speaker mentions sending a ticket to a baby boy and a journey to rehab; the other recalls a mother's drug use and an empty bed. Dreamlike images of shiny lights and white clouds mix with references to blades and broken skin.
—so she sends a ticket to the baby boy.
Then like some she resurrects the beauty of an empty bed. She dreams of happy days instead of moving on to my mother.
She swaps the dreams of shiny lights Happy days instead of Monday.
Until my mom— taking drugs was not for fun.
It made it feel like going on a lousy trip when it's so fun and she sends us to rehab. To drug rehab. She takes a blade and breaks the skin. Sweet love source flows from within the white clouds in a thick blue dim, and she turns her face to the people.
Sunlight creeps across her face, fair beauty in a crimson bed. No dreams of happy days ahead, she loves no more. Tomorrow. Mm-hmm! Mm-hmm! [FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
UB40 - The Earth Dies Screaming / Madness - Too Hot To Handle ft. UB40 / One in Ten (Live)
