I wanna be sedated

I was driving into work this morning and on the radio was The Ramones' song I Wanna be Sedated. This song reminds me of a guy I used to know when I lived in Arizona.

I was about 19 years old and I was attending Scottsdale Community College. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, or be so I took the Community College route first. I met this guy name Lou. Ah Lou, he was probably in his early 20s and what a guy he was. Lou had a shaved head, and a goatee (full dark and sexy) wore a leather jacket and doc martins. He also had a bone in his ear, a spacer if you must, but it was made out of bone, (I never did ask what kind of bone, some things best not said).

He was sexy as hell, and though he looked rough, he was gentle as a lamb, and funny. He would sing this song all the time, and he once told me a funny story about him having to go to the dentist and was singing that song and the dentist was like hey you like The Ramones too, Lou was shocked that a dentist would know who they were and said, "yeah but what I really want is to be sedated for this", (half jokingly) so the dentist said something like, "sure a Ramones' fan, why not", and proceeded to give him some laughing gas, (the story was so much better told by Lou and also it was many years ago so I don't remember exactly how it went). But I remember thinking damn cool dentist. He always had funny stories, and situations that have happened to him. But Lou also lived a hard life before coming to Arizona.

I remember one time a few of us were on Mill Ave. which is right next to ASU and we were walking down the street and all of a sudden a car backfired and Lou was on the ground. I mean seriously he jumped up in the air, and was down on the ground before any of us knew what the hell happened. We all jumped from the noise since the car was right next to us when it backfired, but none of us except for Lou hit the ground. It was hysterical to see this guy that looks so tough drop to the ground because of a car backfiring. He wasn't a guy who was a pussy by any means and he wasn't scared to get into a fight, you see Lou grew up and lived in some really bad parts of Ohio, where I guess drive bys and gun shots were not that uncommon. But, it had been a few years since he lived there, and he still was not used to NOT hearing gun shots, I guess he was a little shell shocked.

He got himself up from the ground, and just started laughing, that was the kind of guy he was, he could laugh at himself and realize hello I'm the only one on the ground, I look silly, but you could see in his eyes that he had seen some rough stuff before.

The first time Lou kissed me, was a kiss I'll probably never forget not because it was absolutely wonderful (it was pretty good) but because it was a weird kiss to say the least, he bit my lip (upper lip not bottom) and sucked on my tongue (that was a new one for me) and I think if I'm remembering this correctly even licked my teeth or something I know sounds gross but it wasn't too bad. It was a gentle sucking on my tongue and it felt pretty good actually, the licking of my teeth and biting the upper lip well that was odd. But the rest was pretty good.

Nothing more ever came between Lou and I, it just wasn't the right time and he had a lot of demons he still needed to work through. I lost touch with Lou, I moved away from Arizona shortly after that, and life takes over. I hope he worked through everything and is a happy person now. But every time I hear I Wanna Be Sedated I think of Lou, good memories. There are other songs that do that for me as well, bring me back to a certain time and place in my life. Are there songs out there that do that for you as well, if so tell me about it in the comments.

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain
Oh no oh oh oh oh

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair get me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain
oh oh oh oh

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair get me to the show
Hurry hurry hurry before I go loco
I can't control my fingers I can't control my toes
Oh no oh oh oh oh

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair get me to the show
Hurry hurry hurry before I go loco
I can't control my fingers I can't control my toes
Oh no oh oh oh oh

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