For annotations on these lines, see the re-recorded version of “Sad Tomorrows”, which was on What’s Going On, titled “Flying High (In the Friendly Sky)

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Once again Marvin indicates that the drug he takes is used to be relieved from stress, and everything else that the world brings along with itself.

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The Alfred Jon Connor mentions here is Alfred Pennyworth, Batman’s butler. In the 2008 movie The Dark Night Alfred told Batman that his enemy, The Joker, is unlike any other villain Batman has come across, and that The Joker just wants to watch the world burn. Meaning he wants to see chaos and destruction as a life goal, and not as an act of revenge or anything alike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=efHCdKb5UWc

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The song “Luchini (This Is It)” is a ‘97 hit single by Chicago hip-hop duo Camp Lo from their often-classic-considered album Uptown Saturday Night. The song is all about having big money, which “luchini pouring from the sky” also suggests, since luchini is slang for money. Extremely fitting for a strip club!

Fun fact: the basis for the album cover for Camp Lo’s Uptown Saturday Night album was the I Want You album by Marvin Gaye, who also gets referenced later in this song.

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Legendary singer Marvin Gaye came to a tragic death when his father shot him in the chest on April the 1st, in 1984. The first bullet, which was also the one killing Marvin, destroyed his vital organs, one day before his birthday. If that’s not even sad enough, the gun which killed Marvin was given by him to his father as a Christmas present.

Well-known pieces Marvin has sung include “Let’s Get It On”, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, “Sexual Healing” and What’s Going On.

A “biscuit” is also a slang term for a bullet.

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“The boy who makes slaves out of men” indicates that the drug Marvin keeps alluding to is heroin. The slave/heroin metaphor is notorious in the media, another example of a musician that used it is Isaac Hayes

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Marvin does in fact realize that the getaway drug will end up affecting him in a horrible and possibly fatal manner, but he is willing to let that happen, in the end it’s probably still the best for him to do use the drug.

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The medication Marvin takes is a getaway drug; he needs it to leave from the hard, sinful, terrible world whenever he can.

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Flying/being high is the effect Marvin gets from the drugs he supposedly takes in this song, “without even leavin' the ground” indicates the song is in fact about drugs, as one wouldn’t have to get up from the ground to get “high”.

The sky indicates friendliness, the place the drugs bring Marvin to is peace- and joyfull.

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Charlie Sheen is another infamous user of cocaine. In multiple interviews the celebrity claimed he had tiger blood and Adonis DNA among other “qualities”.

P plays on the tiger blood and claims he has elephant blood, of course referring to the hugeness and strength of an elephant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OKM0cERkXJQ#t=159s

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