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