* Why is ''Perfect Day'' from ''Music/{{Transformer}}'' about drugs specifically? Is it just because it was on the ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' soundtrack that people have come to associate it with drugs or is there something else?
** ** 'You made me forget myself/I thought I was someone else, /Someone good". Although Lou Reed has always denied that it was about drugs, and, given that he wrote a song called 'Heroin', has no real reason to lie about this.
** Well, according to Lou's first wife Bettye Kronstad it really was inspired by a day that they spent together, which did include a visit to the zoo, a walk in the park and movies.
** It was written by a guy with drug issues at the time, who wrote a song called ''Heroin'' (which does ''not'' glorify narcotics, but does not condemn its use either). Plus, there is a major ambiguity in it: nothing in the lyric suggests it's specifically about a ''person'' - it might be someone you love, but it also might be about alcohol, narcotics or, say, antidepressive medication, [[Music/JohnLennon whatever gets you thru the night.]]