Reading comics and chewing gum
I pull the streams of smoke down into my lungs
Young face in alcohol flames
I was dead on arrival
I wish I had your voice at the end of the line
I'm a postcard waiting in a forgotten time
I shiver on the floor of broken gla**
I was dead on arrival
Took off my shirt, kicked off my shoes
I was twisting in the movie that I'd left for you
Throw me a cigarette, I was king of the world
But dead on arrival
I'm blocking out the pain again
Don't know how to start again
Life on the road holds nothing but lost sleep
When a woman can be alone
With her weakness or sin
How does she write the sickness out of her heart?
Hooked and sick now we're dust and done
So I said my goodbye, good luck and so on
Trembling hands, I must be insane
I was dead on arrival
I just don't know where I come from
I just don't know where I can be found
It's plain to see I'm stuck on you
You don't remember
I was dead on arrival