Girl on LSD

Infobox Song

Name = Girl on LSD
Type = B-side


Artist = Tom Petty
Album = You Don't Know How it Feels
Released = 1994
Format = CD, Cassette, Vinyl
Genre = Rock
Length = 3 min 39 sec
Label = Warner Bros."Girl on LSD" was a song written and recorded by Tom Petty. The song was released only as the B-side to Petty's hit single "You Don't Know How It Feels," which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks. Petty originally intended for "Girl on LSD" to appear on his 1994 album "Wildflowers", but the track was removed by Warner Bros. because it was "too controversial." Fact|date=October 2008

In the song Petty sings about being in love with multiple girls on different drugs: marijuana, cocaine, LSD, beer, china white (a slang term for heroin) and coffee. In the chorus Petty states: "Through ecstasy, crystal meth and glue/I found no drug compares to you/all these pills, all this weed/I dunno just what I need."

The last verse refers to him being in love with a dealer ("I was afraid somebody come and steal her"). At the end of the song, Tom Petty speaks in a sarcastic tone, saying, "Sure as hell, she got popped by the big guys." This either refers to her being arrested by authority figures or killed by other more influential dealers.