Cheap Cocaine

Eight miles out of Galesburg

I'm starin' at the rain

Eight ball left of the cheap cocaine

And I'm lookin' at the sunlight

Light through the pines:

Couldn't tell ya what it is

But it's always been mine

Now that I'm gone I think of the man

With a meth pipe clutched in

His bone-thin hand

I said, hey brother, I hope you get straight

But I bet I don't meet

Him at the pearly gates

And I sing: Hey mamma I

Been starin' at the rain

A little heartbreak, a little soul pain

I been up all night on the cheap cocaine

Tryna make it better but

It's always the same well I made a few new

Friends in a Rockford bar

I told 'em all lies, I said I was in charge

Of the afterparty, where the women were loose

I partied with the metalheads

With gin and juice

Hung over as hell

I slept in shit on the lawn

I'm tired of twenty-somethins and

Their punkrock songs

Wake up in the mornin' and

Stumble towards the down

Sayin' 'how ya doin, boy

It's been too long"

And I sing: Hey mamma I

Been starin' at the rain

A little heartbreak, a little soul pain

I been up all night on the cheap cocaine

Tryna make it better but

It's always the same

On the streets of Chicago with sidekick Sally

I was hittin' up the bars on Viagra Alley

Where the men pick up women

Not half their age

All I had for them was my tears and my rage

And I thought it was a fight

So I went for my knife

And the man shook my hand with

His kids and his wife

I was so ashamed that I hung back and cried

Leave all that to Saint Peter

Wait till I die

And I sing: Hey mamma I

Been starin' at the rain

A little heartbreak, a little soul pain

I been up all night on the cheap cocaine

Tryna make it better but

It's always the same

I've been up all night

I've been stairin' at the sky

And I'm still lonely but I

Couldn't tell you why