Akira The Don, Graham Hancock - Permanently Stoned lyrics

Now I have some personal experience of this
Not been addicted to heroine or cocaine
But I had a 24-year non-stop cannabis habit
This started off by smoking the
Herb and naturally vaporizing
It but the basic truth is that

For 24 years I was
Pretty much permanently stoned
(Permanently stoned, Permanently stoned)
And I enjoyed being stoned
(Enjoyed being stoned)
(Enjoyed being stoned)

And I felt that it helped me
With my work as a writer
Pеrhaps at some point it did
But when I first encountеred
Ayahuasca I'd already been smoking
Cannabis for 16 years
And almost immediately ayahuasca started
Giving me messages
That this was no longer serving me
That it was leading me to behave in
Negative and unhelpful ways towards others
And of course I ignored those
Messages for years and years
And went back to being stoned 16 hours a day

For 24 years I was
Pretty much permanently stoned
(Permanently stoned, Permanently stoned)
And I enjoyed being stoned
(Enjoyed being stoned)
(Enjoyed being stoned)

But that negative behavior that
Ayahuasca was pointing out
Did actually get worse and worse
I don't want to put down cannabis and
I believe it's a sovereign right of
Every adult to choose to smoke cannabis
If they wish to do so
But I think I was overusing it
I think I was abusing it
Not using it responsibly
And I became more and
More paranoid, jealous, possessive
Suspicious I was subject to
Irrational rages I often made the life
Of my beloved partner, Santher, a misery
And when I went down for my regular
Encounter with ayahuasca in October 2011
I was given the most unbelievable
Kicking by Mother Ayahuasca

For 24 years I was
Pretty much permanently stoned
(Permanently stoned, Permanently stoned)
And I enjoyed being stoned
(Enjoyed being stoned)
(Enjoyed being stoned)

And I was put through an ordeal
It was a kind of life review
And it's not an accident that ayahuasca
Is the vine of the dead
I was shown my death and I was shown
That if I came to death and what
Await's us after death without
Having corrected the mistakes
That I was making in my life
That it would be a very bad thing for me
And actually Mother Ayahuasca literally
Took me to hell
And that hell was a little like
Hell painted by Hieronymus Bosch
A truly terrible place
And a little like the place that the ancient
Egyptians called the judgment hall of Osiris
Where our souls are weighed in the scales
In the presence of the gods
Against the Feather of Truth
Of Justice of Cosmic Harmony
Where our souls are weighed in the scales
In the presence of the gods
Against the Feather of Truth, of Justice
Of Cosmic Harmony
And I was shown that the path I was
Walking my abuse of cannabis and the behavior
Associated with it was going to lead me
To be found wanting in the judgment
And that I might face annihilation
In the world beyond death
So perhaps not surprising
When I came back to England
Later in October 2011 i gave up cannabis
I've never smoked it again since then

For 24 years I was
Pretty much permanently stoned
(Permanently stoned, Permanently stoned)
And I enjoyed being stoned
(Enjoyed being stoned)
(Enjoyed being stoned)

For 24 years I was
Pretty much permanently stoned
(Permanently stoned, Permanently stoned)
And I enjoyed being stoned
(Enjoyed being stoned)
(Enjoyed being stoned)

I'm speaking only personally with no comment
On others' use of cannabis
It's as though a monkey has
Been lifted off my back
I'm liberated in incredible ways
Far from my creativity of
Being inhibited I find
Myself writing much more productively
Much more creatively
Much more focused and much
More efficiently as well
And I began to be able
To address those negative
Aspects of my behavior which
Cannabis had revealed
And hopefully to make myself slowly
It's a long progress
Into a more nurturing, more loving
More positive person