ATL

Born from hippies back in sixty nine

I was bored by 1992

I walked into a recruitment office a year before that

They said, "Son, we've been waiting for you"

Discharged from the Gulf War the very same year

I came home with a carton or two

Of cigarettes and mix tapes and bullets from a gun

That my dead best friend never did use

Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you

Let your sweaty embrace open wide

'Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like most people do

And I need all your ground to survive

Wasted and downtrodden, only in vain

Of the old shopping center where we used to ride

Now condos as sterile as I

So I bought me an old air stream for three thousand bucks

From a drug dealer I used to owe

And I thought to myself as I slept off a high

The irony is starting to show

Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you

Let your sweaty embrace open wide

'Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like some people do

And I need all your ground to survive

Drove out to Asheville 'cause that's where you were

Where you married into money and pills

And I wanted so bad to be good with you now

The fact is that you never will

'Cause some become lovers because of the sex

And some you know, they just become friends

In our case I just became bad at it all

I never got good at it again

Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you

Let your sweaty embrace open wide

'Cause Atlanta, I'm suffocating like some people do

And I need all your air to survive