Lyric discussion by SUbstance_D 

I think this song is like a giant drug reference? Benzedrine is an amphetamine popular during World War 2, soldiars used to use it stay awake and active for long periods of time. It's similar to meth or coke. Coke is what the song title is referring to, as $20 is a cheap price for a few hits of bad coke at a party, and if you do too much your nose will bleed (this has happened to me and many of my friends) If you do that too often you can get a broken septum, which is why you shouldn't do coke until you can get something not cut with powdered suger or flour, like what is sold to the majority of teens. There's a more in-depth reference to that in another song, but I can't think of it at the moment, it's by third eye blind. Anyway, Benzedrine has since been sythesized differently and put into inhalers to prevent abuse, but you can still break the canisters open with a pen and eat the cotton rod inside the inhaler to get the high.

"There's a more in-depth reference to that in another song, but I can't think of it at the moment, it's by third eye blind"

Semi-Charmed Life is about crystal meth. I don't know if that is what you were talking about, but that's the only 3eb song i can think of right now that's about drugs.

excellent. That is exactly what i was looking for. By the way is your name a scanner darkly reference?

I think the song you're thinking of is Slow Motion by Third Eye Blind:

"Later bathing in the afterglow Two lines of coke I cut with Draino And her nose starts to bleed A most beautiful ruby red"

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