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One of our faster paced bad ass rock tunes, inspired by my old friend Ky Anto... And my own battle with addiction. I'm happy to report that my fight is over. Has been since 2005, last time I smoked crack ever... I outgrew it. I had already stopped injecting since about 2001 (I ran out of veins to shoot in; now they can't even draw blood from my arms in hospital, they're all dead and gone.) The whole recovery process took incredibly long: I went to my first rehab in 1989 when I came back from L.A. then I went to about 7 more places for various periods of time (a month, 6 months, 3 months, 1 year in jail, then a suicide attempt in dec. 1997 that was reported all over the Montreal press. Then I moved to Toronto, wrote a novel, switched from IV to crack, then switched from crack to occasional E, Ketamine and booze, 2003 I switched to opiates for the summer after 2 surgeries... Then I got on Methadone and I've been a good boy since... except for the sporadic 1 day relapses, the last of which happened in 2005. It's nothing short of a miracle that I, of all people survived this death sentence of an addiction that very nearly killed me. I'm happy to still be here sharing my music with all of my friends out there... You know who you are... I'll see you at the next shows... Miss you... love...
Eloha

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Junkie

Sick in the morning, sick at night
Sick as a dog then high as a kite
Found a dynamo, no place to go
Now I gotta’ lose a loser

Hey! Fuck!
Why do we do what we do?

I want to be free yeah!
I want to be free yeah!
I want to be free, free to be
I want to be free, free to be me
I was a junkie, junkie!
I was a junkie, junkie!

Smack in the middle, dabble a little
Youth is wasted on the young
Scream so loud, scare my things
Now I gotta’ lose a loser

Ky! Fuck!
Why do we do what we do?

I want to be free yeah!
I want to be free yeah!
I want to be free, free to be
I want to be free, free to be me
I was a junkie, junkie!
I was a junkie, junkie!

credits

from THE SEVENATE - Amour Badass Utsukushii, released January 1, 2007
Words and Music by Eloha Bouchard
Produced by: Eloha
Recorded by: Troy Palmateer, studio 660
Manny Da Silva: Drums
Hem advani: Guitar, Vocals
Eloha: Voice, Guitar, Bass

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Eloha Toronto, Ontario

Canadian singer and founder of Montreal heavy metal sensation INSANE (1985-'89), Montreal bloody gothic hard rock vampire stalkers TALAMASCA (1993-'99), Toronto diamond hard rockers
THE SEVENATE (2005-'13), then went solo after a move to Paris with
ELOHA & THE VELVETTES (2013-'14) and finally founded diamond rock aliens of
ELEV8 (2017- present)...
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