Artist: The Rolling Stones Album: Flowers Song: Mother's Little Helper Year: 1966 Top Chart Position: #8

What a drag it is getting old. "Kids are different today," I hear ev'ry mother say Mother needs something today to calm her down And though she's not really ill There's a little yellow pill She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day. "Things are different today," I hear ev'ry mother say Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day. Doctor, please, some more of these Outside the door, she took four more What a drag it is getting old. "Men just aren't the same today," I hear ev'ry mother say They just don't appreciate that you get tired They're so hard to satisfy. You can tranquilise your mind So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper And four help you through the night, help to minimise your plight. Doctor,plese, some more of these Outside the door, she took four more What a drag it is getting old. Life's just much too hard today," I hear ev'ry mother say The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose No more running to the shelter of a mother's little helper They just helped you on your way through your busy dying day.

Valium, what more can be said? To escape the world which is changing all around her, the woman in this song is running to the waiting chemical arms which will slow things down for her. Valium will bring the fast paced life she’s been forced into back to the speed of the time in which she grew up. In roughly the late 1940s, when all was good and the war was over, there was time to relax. Now, she, and many like her, are having an awful time dealing with life, instead running not only to the "slow-down" drugs, but to the manufactured solutions, steak and cake, and bitching in groups of like victims.