Lake Shore Drive (song)

Lake Shore Drive (song)

Lake Shore Drive is a song written by Chicago-based rock group Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah released on their 1971 album of the same name. This song was an homage to the famed lakefront highway in Chicago of the same name and (some believe) also to LSD, a hallucinogen. Many fans of the song, and residents of Chicago believe this song paints an accurate musical picture of living and driving in downtown Chicago. [ [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6960 Lake Shore Drive by Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah Songfacts] ]

Lyrics

The following is a sampling of some of the lyrics that may be considered double entendre of both physically driving on the actual Lake Shore Drive and slippin' (or trippin') on the drug LSD:

:"Well there ain't no road just like it, anywhere I've found,":"Runnin' south on Lake Shore Drive, headin' into town.":"Just slippin' on by on L.S.D., Friday night trouble bound."

Other lyrics in the song illustrate the physical features of the road and its surroundings. "It starts up north from Hollywood" refers to West Hollywood Avenue, which, running eastbound, becomes Lake Shore Drive. "A ten-minute drive from the Gold Coast back, Makes you sure you’re pleasure bound" refers to Gold Coast, a strip of extremely affluent residential housing along LSD. "Concrete mountains rearing up, Throwing shadows just about five" may refer to the expressway overpasses of the Stevenson Expressway. "From Ratz on up to Riches" refers to "Ratzo's" a near-North Side tavern where AHJ once performed.

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