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This is one of my most popular songs when I play it live.
The story of the song: Each time I went to the doctor in the late 80s and 90s, because of illnesses like M.E., whooping cough, or recurring tooth abscess, GPs wanted to put me on Prozac. All my female friends were on Prozac as their GPs also kept telling them it was a miracle cure, a non-addictive wonderdrug. I felt like it was some kind of religion. People I knew on Prozac said they felt more creative, or more depressed, or got into violent fights, or ignored their children, ignored their actual problems. One day after I had waited for two years in tremendous pain for an appointment at a dental hospital, after many root canal fillings gone wrong, the hospital consultant told me the only treatment available was Prozac. She told me that all the patients in her clinic were on Prozac, and inferred that there was something very wrong with me for not wanting to take anti-depressants for toothache. This relentless insistence by everyone to ignore medical, social, and financial problems and instead to blithely bully me and many other women into taking some kind of magical panacea drove me into a rage and inspired this song. If anyone reading this is on Prozac and it helps them, great! I am very glad for you. Eventually I cured my excruciating toothache by finding a good dentist. My mother was told that Valium was not addictive in the 1970s, the GPs were putting many women on Valium and Mogadons then, and on Laudanum (opium tincture) in the 19th Century.

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Prozac (1992)
Verse 1:
Caught in a spider's web, she dreams
Of far off places, she goes to
Of smiling faces, she floats to
Caught in a spider's web, life is sweet
Inspiration is calling me
Spinning dreams, to soothe me
Chorus:
Take the Prozac don't talk back!
Take the Prozac don't fight back!
Take the Prozac be a good Prozac Citizen!
Ah- ah Citizen!
Verse 2:
Miracle drug, oh miracle cure come blank me
White divine light, so radiant and pure, anoint me
I can reach the very top of a mountain peak
Stuck in a spider's web, nothing how it seems
Chorus
Instrumental break
Verse 2a:
I can reach the very top of a mountain peak
Stuck in a spider's web, nothing how it seems
Chorus
Ah-ah-ah-ooh! & dramatic ending

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released January 1, 1998
Veronique Acoustique: songwriter, vocals, guitar, keyboards, recording (on cassette!), mixing (basically good or bad I am responsible for it!) Recorded 1992 with basic re-mistressing in August 2018.

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Veronique Acoustique London, UK

I am an acoustic singer-songwriter but experiment with electronic, psychedelic and electronic music.I arrange, edit, and record music. I've been doing this for ages.
I don't like strict musical categories. I want a fairer peaceful world. I get stage nerves. I play Javanese gamelan and Sundanese zither.The photo on my profile was taken in 2006. I am doing a PhD in Ethnomusicology. ... more

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