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John Cooper: "Better Than Drugs is one of those songs that some people really like the lyrics
or some people really hate the lyric I've found. I've found people on both sides think they're offended. Some people are saying,
"Are you saying drugs are really good?" And I'm like absolutely not. Basically I've never done drugs in my whole life and
I'm a pretty straight edge guy when it comes to these things. I think drugs are just bad for society all out. I started thinking
why is it that people do drugs? You know, asking things like that. And one of the main reasons it seems to me the people
find themselves involved in some kind of ... like serious alcohol or drug abuse, that kind of thing... has just been because
life can stink so bad, that life can be so hard. All that crap that comes down, it's just another way to deal, you know? And
everybody finds a way to deal with whatever pain they have. Like when my Mom died from cancer it was like, there was these
times I felt like I needed someone to talk to in a really bad way at night. Maybe it would be really late at night
and I'd call a friend or something... that was my way of dealing with this. I needed somebody in the flesh to be there
for me, you know? And I started thinking about this drug thing about when I get on the road with other bands and you see the
way that some bands deal with how hard road life is by doing drugs or abusing alcohol, I just think what a bummer it
is when all this high is over with that you have to come back down to your real sucky life... that it's a temporary escape,
but you're not escaping at all you're just fooling yourself. And so Better Than Drugs was basically.. um, again,
could be a song that's about God, could be a song about someone that makes you feel that escape because they're there for
you and they meet those kind of needs. And that's what it's saying; basically because the reason you make me feel that...
you're better than drugs, if you will, is that I don't ever have to come down from the high that you give me. That's what
it's saying; don't have to feel lonely because you're always there for me and satisfy my soul... yeah!"
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