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Tits up
I always had to win the party
Smoke, snort, and drink the most
To leave with the pretty girl
Soon it became my everyday
Being 19 I fit right in
In your late 20’s it’s no longer cute
To spend it all on altered state
Wasted potential I had become
Eventually though I payed the toll
In the mirror I saw a sickly gaunt man
Wasting away I could count my ribs
Sunken cheeks of a corpse still moving
In a friends tub I had nearly collapsed a lung
I’d like to take credit for quitting cold turkey
Truth is though
I was too weak to drink
Too poor for something to snort
And when you can’t breathe smoking loses appeal
© JackDedalus
Smoke, snort, and drink the most
To leave with the pretty girl
Soon it became my everyday
Being 19 I fit right in
In your late 20’s it’s no longer cute
To spend it all on altered state
Wasted potential I had become
Eventually though I payed the toll
In the mirror I saw a sickly gaunt man
Wasting away I could count my ribs
Sunken cheeks of a corpse still moving
In a friends tub I had nearly collapsed a lung
I’d like to take credit for quitting cold turkey
Truth is though
I was too weak to drink
Too poor for something to snort
And when you can’t breathe smoking loses appeal
© JackDedalus
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