Weakness

I got a hunger, I got a jones
I sell my flesh, I pierce my skin

She said, I've slept with gangsters
I got a fever, I got a thirst
I got a hunger, I got a jones
I'm sick and I need to get well
But this weakness is my only friend

I got a weakness
I hurt deep in my bone
I got a weakness
Met her on Fountain Avenue
She said, I'm a liar, a thief, a junkie
Thugs and smugglers, congressman and governors
I hurt deep in my bones
I'm sick and I need to get well
I got a weakness

And told me love was nothing but a cruel hoax
I'm sick and I need to get well
So long, I just can't take it no more
Her grandmother died when she was five
And she never did know her folks
I've seen therapists and holy men

I'm sitting on the edge of the bubble
It feeds my need, it numbs my soul
'Cause I got a weakness
I got a hunger, I got a jones
Sitting on a Cadillac Coupe De Ville

Just waiting for it to burst
I got a fever, I got a thirst

Just waiting for it to burst
She made me cry, I told some jokes
I got a weakness
And tomorrow I'ma do it all again
I got a fever, I got a thirst
I'm sitting on the edge of the bubble
We talked all afternoon
I hurt deep in my bones
And her mother by an overdose

She looked me deep in my eyes
Her father fell in a gun fight

It starts to creep and take control
And I used to be a whore
And I've been trying to shake this monkey

I got a weakness
I'm sitting on the edge of the bubble