Mama, mama, mom I need help
Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad health
I don't want bad health to make a bitter old man outta me
An old man oughta be set up right so he can stand upright
I don't want bad health to place any more space in between
You and me that we don't need
It's all my fault and you been takin' the blame
Bad health
Bad health
Woke up on construction hours, eyes all bloodshot
Car crashed in the garage, sound like a gunshot
Woman in my bed who I ain't got no feelings for
And a candle burnin' on the ground coulda burned the house down
We did lines on a plate in a room
With a lamp overturned like fiends and me
I don't know what it means to be a kid
And I keep on trying to find out, guess I'll only know when I'm old
Bad Health
Had drink in between our legs on the freeway
Had a cop to our right saw our lives on replay
Almost hit him cus I wanna be the DJ
Still wanna spin, might go and pull the e-brake
When I heard that your good friend died
Cus his lungs got fried, I was still pullin' smoke into mine
All that made me feel like a king
Got a quota made up in my head and my head rings
This gon' be a long ride like a limousine
But somehow I think that I could make it to the other end
I had been so innocent, I had been a coward
I had been the nice guy, the one that you were proud of
But I had had enough of not knowin' nothin'
Learned who I was cus I learned who I wasn't
Pursued my own pollution and arrived at confusion
And I'm still there, now I'm more aware of where I gotta go
Disregard what I said, disregard what I sung
I'm the only one that change could ever come from
Please ma, just for a little while
I got a couple things that Imma try to reconcile
In this stretch, when I need you the most
Even if I ask ma you gotta resist, it's my wish
Don't do your job, don't be my friend
Don't gimme help, but don't blame yourself
And don't ask me why, cus you will find out
When I find my way back into your arms
With my head up high, like the good old times
Finally feelin' like the man you always saw me as
Mama, mama, mom I need help
Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad health
I don't want bad health to make a bitter old man outta me
An old man oughta be set up right so he can stand upright
I don't want bad health to place any more space in between
You and me that we don't need
It's all my fault and you been takin' the blame
Bad health
Bad health