The Ballad of Casey Hardison

The day I read the news
I had arisen and consumed
Some mushroom tea I thought it funny
Not ha ha it was a sunny day

You didn't fall on your sword
You dove on it from above
You fought with all your might
And from the greatest height

You picked a fight with civilised democracy
And civilised democracy swallowed the key

I have never known such poetic justice
Twenty years is easy bird
The local rag screamed local man
Got what he deserved
But the national press left you alone
The less said now the sooner you will
Go away and not come back for twenty years

The Sanctuary café
A word in your ear
Of all the places
For the piper to appear
You rise to meet him
The world disappears
You paid the piper
Like all good pioneers

Drug use is always wrong
All it does is turn out thieves
Or laughing fools who can barely tie their shoes
Don't intellectualise your way
We don't hear what you have to say
Drugs are bad and they can only be abused

How dare you talk to us like that
You eloquent intoxicat
You really takes the biscuit boy
The judge and jury cried
Oh but the national press left you alone
The less said now the sooner you will
Go away and not come back for twenty years

The defendant seems confused
About how the penalties awarded
Relate to the relative risks of drugs and booze
So let this be recorded!

Smoking kills a hundred thousand
Booze a modest forty
Mushrooms don't kill anyone
But we still think they're very naughty

They grow in nature once a year
And it's said expand your brain
The thought of this fills us with fear
So they're Class A like crack cocaine

If you feel the need for weed
Your life is on the skids
So weed's in Category B
Like the Ritalin we give to kids

Ketamine degrades your bladder
And is strongly habit forming
If you're found with some
You'll get a very strongly worded warning

But from the Chief medical officer
To your local friendly bobby
Nobody would dare to cross
The omni-potent alco-lobby

Our job's to enforce the law
And these are the ones we're stuck with
It's not the cough that carries you off
It's the profit they paid us all off with

Today the rain came streaming down
It washed the dirt back down
Inside the earth so it could grow a mind-bending array
Of psychedelic shrooms and plants
And delicate intoxicants
To help us find our way behind the veil

The truth resides within your mind
The law will never get inside
The law will never get inside

Tomorrow morning when you rise
You can rest assured inside
The sun will make its way along The Vale
God knows your lonely soul
And only knows too well the role you have played
In helping her along the way

The truth resides within your mind
The law will never get inside
The law will never get inside
The truth resides within your mind
Love resides within your heart
The law will never get inside
Your consciousness is fortified