10 Classic Rock Songs That Were Written About Drugs

For all of the junkies that are in pain trying to be on the straight and narrow, it's not exactly a walk in the park being one of their close friends either. They can only help themselves if they want to get clean, and it's never easy seeing your friends throw everything away for almost no reason as you look on doing nothing. Sometimes you just need to be told to slow down, and The Outsider is the kind of anger as told from the concerned friend looking in.

While most of A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step deals with what happens going down the road of addiction, this is one of the most angry tracks on the record, flipping the perspective from the addict to their friends and family in their lives, trying to understand what drives them to hurt themselves again and again. You can almost feel Maynard James Keenan go through several different emotions on this song, starting almost confused about why they would want to harm themselves like this to eventually exploding at them, calling this person a drama queen and only focusing on themselves going that one step further whenever they can.

It doesn't shy away from some of the harsh emotions that come with this either, with the bridge saying that everyone calling this person a junkie was right about them and the narrator just saying that if they decide to keep using to just to do it as far away from him as possible. Everything's left in the air by the end, and it's all in the junkie's hands now. Either they can clean up, or you can keep testing fate one bullet at a time.