Cold sweat hot flashes bones ache
Go weeks no sleep not no way
Need a blast from the past for old dope sake
Old habits die hard like they won't break
Them old shakes won't go away keep twitching
Ship sunk chill bumps and my feet kicking
Mental monster starving to feed addiction
Blood pressure through the roof where the fever's living
I can feel it this time I'm going all the way
But if I fall my esé is just a call away
And it's a slippery slope when addicted to dope
My lifeline's got a noose at the end of my rope
Shoot 'em up bang bang how the gun sound
Perfect aim so the pain get gunned down
Running circles getting nowhere somehow
And that's one helluva track to try to run around
Ain't no pain like the pain of a comedown
No pain like the pain of a comedown
But I always end up back here somehow now
Where you gonna be we'll see when you come down
Where you gonna be when you come down
Wide awake in bed by sundown come down somehow now
Back on the wagon dragging rather lethargic
Tracing shadows on the wall in patterns of darkness
The morning after torn and tattered shattered heartless
Way past dope sick not your average nauseous
One way in one way out
And this the real way not a fake route
Too sick to pick up a phone and order takeout
Looking at my last twenty bucks and want a taste now
Yeah I'm sick and some of you can probably empathize
Paint a picture of a pain you can visualize
Quitters lose and in the end the winner dies
Erase the digits but I keep the number memorized
Shoot 'em up bang bang how the gun sound
One shot one kill fire one round
Can't please 'em all I'ma let some down
On the wrong side of the tracks after sundown
Ain't no pain like the pain of a comedown
No pain like the pain of a comedown
But I always end up back here somehow now
Where you gonna be we'll see when you come down
Where you gonna be when you come down
Wide awake in bed by sundown come down somehow now
So put a fist in the air if you needing a change
To break the chains of the clinics and needle exchange
Instead of finding new reasons and people to blame
I've felt too much love to believe in the pain
Hard to pick a part my brain and reprogram it
While these folks tell me what I already know dammit
The island of addiction leaves most stranded
Skid row ghost town turned ghost planet
Coming down hard with the slow landing
Clipped wings getting tired flying broke handed
Cold turkey in the morning like the dope vanished
Tainted love hate thang so romantic
Shoot 'em up bang bang how the gun sound
Last time was a sign when the gun jammed
I'm surprised I'm alive and somehow
Still got that monkey on my back when I come around
Ain't no pain like the pain of a comedown
No pain like the pain of a comedown
But I always end up back here somehow now
Where you gonna be we'll see when you come down
Where you gonna be when you come down
Wide awake in bed by sundown come down somehow now