"It's just fentanyl, she'd only kill a criminal." The absolutely artistic sorrow and beauty in that poetic line. The satire of treating addiction like a crime.
@@crilf5830 I like that. I think your first sentence is arbitrarily true to most definitions of satire, but does someone need to experience trauma to reflect on society? Maybe so. I think about the Buddha leaving his palace for the first time and the four reflections. Perhaps one does not care to reflect on life until they see trauma? What do you think about that?
I'm at 12 years. My problem was a life-time ago; it happened to another person. Keep it up. You'll get there. If you don't have Suboxone or Subutex, get some. And I don't want to hear shit from anyone about anything on either of those drugs - they saved MY life.
Keep going. Things are so different on the other side. Like worms said, it’ll be like looking back on your life as if you were a completely different person.
Diggin it, sounds a bit like modern day John Prine. I myself dealt with a fent addiction 2 years back. I went through the pharma pain pill to fent pipeline. You'd never know that I at one point was shooting up in walmart parking lots, this stuff hits all types of peoples. All shades,occupations and social classes. Glad I'm clean now. Hang in there anyone struggling. Get on methadone,subs,kratom and keep yourself around a bit longer! That lifestyle ain't worth it
I'm glad you're clean, too. It's rough to be in it and rough to get out of it. I'm grafeful I got clean before fentynol came around. Meth and heroin almost did me in.
I thought this was going to be terrible, but damn it’s really good! Anyone that’s done fentanyl or has someone in their life who’s addicted to it can relate. It will take down anyone - every race, rich, poor, employed, disabled, homeless. It does not discriminate one bit. All it takes is two days of use and your body is hooked, and the withdrawal symptoms are so miserable and painful it’ll make make you do insane things just to get well. Currently I have cancer and have been going through chemotherapy treatment for 3.5 years, and I can tell you that cancer pain and the misery caused by the chemo is NOTHING compared to some hardcore opioid withdrawal. Pray for the addicts, pray they find the strength to get clean. They’re not all loser burnouts, some are your friends, your neighbors, your brother or sister, etc. - they need help and compassion. If they can’t recover they could die any day, and being stuck like that leaves you feeling so hopeless. It’s quite tragic.
Heroin is bad enough - if fentanyl is worse I truly pity those who made the mistake of trying it. My life has been ruined by smack - but in the end, it was my choice...
@@user-if7kq7if2e - I think fentanyl withdrawals are just more intense but shorter than heroin. To be honest as a long time opioid addict, I don’t really like fentanyl. It’s fully synthetic so there’s no part of the opium poppy in it, all it does is just sedates you and it wears off so quick you have to keep doing more. I preferred heroin because I loved that relaxed high where you’re just so at peace, scratching your nose and relaxing. Sorry, not trying to trigger you! Fentanyl sucks and people that are opioid naive tend to OD so easily. It’s like opioid crack, you have to take a hit every five minutes. I’m with you too, I did this to myself. I started using OxyContin at 21, then heroin at 23 right as I graduated college. I’m 39 now with cancer and it seems like those 18 years flew by in a few months. I wasted my youth and now my health is paying the toll quite young.
@@piercehubbard4086You're right about everything except for the withdrawal being shorter. I was addicted to heroin, got clean for a couple years and when I relapsed all you could find was fentanyl. The withdraws last longer than heroin but start sooner. Granted I'm sure it varies person to person, and how much you're using plays a part as well. I used to be able to detox from heroin in 5 or 6 days, but Fent always took 8 to 10 days. It's purely synthetic so the body doesn't know how to break it down as effectively as it does opiates that are natural or semisynthetic like morphine and heroin.
This is glorious. A guy in his mid twenties (maybe?) in the woods with his guitar who wrote a completely original tune about something real. Here I thought they didn't make them like this anymore.
@@DavidVargas-hg7cs Blowing in the wind is always what I first think of as Bob Dylan having trouble writing lyrics. The last four or five "Yes and"s were entirely forced like he wanted to pad out the song, but you're right, that's only one song and the only example I can think of of that from him. All singers have a song or two where that happens.
My little brother died of a fentanyl overdose two days ago. I miss him. Wish I could've saved him from this shit. We were supposed to get old together. Fentanyl turned him into a husk of a person and sapped every last ounce of potential from him. Sorry Gray. You were fucking awesome.
My dad overdosed and passed from fentanyl on march 18th 2020. Thanks for this little song buddy. Anyone here that has lost people to fentanyl understand how much it hurts.
Very sorry for your loss, my dad passed suddenly for a heart attack new yrs eve, we lived together since my mom left him almost yrs ago, he was addicted to cocaine, but he was able to get soberon his own,been the hardest very of my life so far, and battling addiction myself.🙏✌️
the lyrics aren't literal usually as is most art n stuff obviously hes not saying snort then smoke then prick you're skin but he is saying have compassion for thy fellow man
Another amazing tune by Jesse Welles. I always get amazed on how casual yet profound your lyrics are - they really portray how desensitized we've become. Please never stop writing and playing. You're amazing.
Wow.. perfect! For some reason, this felt like some vintage 1970's clip. Everything tick the box. Had I edited a VHS style over this one people would've just believed it to be some obscure footage dug from a recycling center. I even doubted it were recorded in 2024 myself 😂
Another great artist that I've found through Ren. Hes never directed the Renegades to a bad artist. I love this song. My city has been plauged by it and people are dying left right and centre.😔💖
Thank you! That's how I ended up on this channel! I was going crazy trying to remember how I found Jesse, and you reminded me that it was through Ren. ((And here I was giving all the credit to the algorithm gods.. 😄))
@@jessiczar387 Haha the algorithm God's can't handle me randomness. My playlist is REN, beyonce, eminem, Leona Lewis, nirvana, from gospel music, to rap, to ballards to heavy metal, the algorithm is like pick a flipping genre!! But to be honest at the moment its Ren Ren Ren Ren Ren, acts posted by Ren, Ren Ren Ren 😂💖 never praise the Gods, they're watching and listening 😂
As a 10yr retired oxycotton addict, It gas cost me many of my feelings to that drug. But I'm crying because of that last verse- through to the first. Ouch..😢
My brother OD’d a few years ago. He would have loved your stuff, man…hell he was such a rambler you may have met him when he was trouncing around Asheville… You would have probably called him Nate (all his friends seemed to) but he was always Nathan to me. Miss you buddy.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Germany. Really need
Yes, dr.porassss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Love your music, it's wonderful to see people still making folk/protest songs. This one in particular just brings tears to my eyes, especially the last verse. "She'd only kill a criminal" is a brilliant line.
There will be a lot of bots paid for by the pharmaceutical industry that say nasty things in these comments. Please understand that a large portion of the negativity you're seeing is this. You're an amazing artist and that was a moving song. You knocked the wind out of my sails with that last line, brother. Love and light
Bro I had to turn on the bell for all of these new releases you are going to make history w these lil political jams I’m telling u we needed someone like you at a time like this ~ a resurgence. Please keep being you! Much love man, these truly are so powerful!
Keep leaving time in the videos at the end of the songs, noticed you left a bit more each upload, it’s really nice to listen to the forest for a bit before the video ends 😁😁🙏🙏
Young buck you just made my day. I was firmly convinced we had seen the last of your kind. I thought the mold was broken. I would've sworn they wouldn't make any more of that model. Please don't ever stop. Believe it or not we've been waiting for you.
Neither of those are correct. He looks nothing like Morrison except his hair, and that’s only kinda, but not really. He doesn’t sound like Dylan either. Just gravely and nasal
I have no idea why, out of nowhere, your song War Isn't Murder was recommended to me, but I'm really, really glad it was and I'm really glad I got curious enough to check it out. Your songs are awesome, dude!
RIP DAD RIP To My X Thanks uncle Sam for the war on drugs that only made you money and left us peasants to beg and borrow. Great tune man, keep speaking your mind.
10 months, 13 days clean. This song speaks a good deal and I appreciate the message you are conveying. Thank you for speaking about a sensitive topic like this one.
I wish you all the best my good friend. I've been clean 12 years. This life is possible!! You are doing the right thing and you're doing great. God bless you and keep it between the ditches pal.☮♥️🕉
Strumming, hybrid picking , fingerstyle, and now Travis picking. I'm not sure what I'm more impressed with the lyrics or guitar composition? Take that as a huge compliment because I do both and am very critical. YOU ARE ON A DIFFERENT LEVEL
Holy shit dude you've come out of nowhere (from my perspective) the past few days with some incredible work. This is just amazing. And that last line is fantastic, a lot of people would do well to think on that.
powerful song. I hate to add to the people comparing you to singers from the 70's, but this feels like a song Lou Reed would have written, and i mean that as the highest of compliments
What a wonderful voice you’ve got young man. A cross between Bob Dylan and John Prine, I’m sure Johnny was working on his nine mile cigarette enjoying that tune from heaven!
Rock on sounds like John Prine. I used heroin for 21 years and fentanyl for several of those too. I’m fighting everyday for my life still after 7 years of being clean. It’s all fun in games until the rich and the suburbs are suffering too. We could stop the war on drugs and treat instead of incarcerate but there’s no money in that is there! Oxoxox awesome work totally dig your sound Mr. Wells
I’m grateful to be one of the people that got treatment instead of the prison time I was facing. The social workers that advocated for me gave me another chance at life. Treatment and compassion can go a long way. 3-17-2016.
@@catpetter you aint fuckin wrong friend! friend of mine and i used to listen to the track on a cd player every morning on the bus ride to school. alongside 'in a gadda da vida' and 'black water'
yep, took me some time, but now i understand what they mean by "once an addict, always an addict." the most important thing is to not beat yourself up. We all going to die soon enough, so do what makes you happy, but remember what sabjee1734 says about moderation... without moderation, everything in life becomes dull and if your hooked to a chain and ball, you can't be happy. "get high in the morning and get drunk in the afternoon" 🤠
This was really good. It would be amazing if someone in power would actually listen to it and consider what the man is saying. This should be much more widely available.
I've been really enjoying your music recently, but if you see this, I was wondering if you'd be willing to release 'War isn't murder' on spotify, I think it might be my favourite of what I've heard so far.
So I’ll be the first to say I love the song and the style, the issues it addresses are dead on plus i love how he took “big rock candy mountain” and put his own lyrics to it. Give props to the kid and the originals
I just want you to know I've been practicing War Isnt Murder and its really helping me develop my fingerpicking skills. Thanks for being musically inspiring!!
I’m from Russia we even didn’t have that’s staff here, but have another chemical poison which killed poor people. Thanks for you song mate, we need more songs like this - not about stupid parties or rich dreams.
