Intro

The three essential elements; the mainstay of life: sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

The good life consists of an equal dose of all three. Upset the balance and life goes down the pan. Get the balance right and you will live forever.

Sex: it lights up the body; it get all the juices flowing; it opens your emotions; it stimulates that secret centre deep within the body that activates everything that is important: the psyche; it makes the spirit fly; dreams; goodwill; the magic spark that lights the flame that drives the body.

Drugs: those funny little pills. Hello Alice. There are some that make you tall, and there are some that make you small. Take the right pill and you can run through the doorway into the magic garden. Take the right pill and you can climb the highest mountain and commune with god. Take the right pill and you can descend into hell and hear the witches howl. Take the right pill and you can giggle all over the world. Take the right pill and you can tear your soul apart.

Rock and Roll: ......and you can dance to put your soul together again. You can dance to make your spirit jump like laughter; and you can dance all over the clouds, leaping like a lamb in spring over the barbed wire, over the brambles, into the green fields of somewhere where you can swing from sky-hooks, and you can dance your body into eternal youth, as you go rocking all over the world.

© John Clare 2009