Speed and E's
Speed and E's and crack and coke - Uppers, downers, grass and dope.
Gas and solvents - Heroin - Used to fill a hole within.
Horses, dogs and roulette wheel - Cards or slot machines appeal.
Bet on drops on window pane, so in that buzz you can remain.
Scotch and vodka, wine and gin, hides the emptiness within.
Spending money, buying things - quick satisfaction that this brings.
Bank loans, credit cards and cash - spend, spend, spend, that cash you'll splash.
Then there's work, which seems ok -
Controls your life - keeps thoughts away.
Or someone who just fills your head. Can't eat, can't sleep
Your head's like lead.
To break that cycle, kill that need,
Starve addiction - kill the weed
That's growing up inside of you, is not an easy thing to do.
I've no slick answers, no quick fix. There's no concoction I can mix
To fill that gap that your drugs plug, to fill a bigger hole that's dug
Into your very heart and soul - that's cold as ice and black as coal.
When craving for your next fix bites, with that drug you choose to do,
Just try and see beyond that hit - look at just what follows it -
The damage that will follow through.
No respect for those around you. People used then thrown away.
Loved ones squeezed until exhausted
With the onslaught of each day.
The value of your own life vanished.
Worth and self esteem are gone.
Hatred of your weakness follows - think you're hopeless.
Well you're wrong.
Most prisons are far more than buildings,
Jails much worse than any cell,
The jailor far more cruel than people -
Chains are always made in hell.
There's only One to open prisons,
Who can set each captive free.
Break the bondage of addiction,
Now and for eternity.
Its not an easy, short-term option -
Strength is needed on the way.
But hold on tight and you'll be given
Enough to take life day by day.
© 2003 Jackie Pope