Don’t worry about me, he smiled wryly
All my pains are self inflicted
I don’t have to go on this way, he said
I could stop it, join the rest of the world
Go back to college, better myself
For my future, I guess you could say
I could and damned if I know why
Why I don’t, I mean
The whiskey and the coke don’t work
Not like they used to anyway
The smoke mellows but hell, he laughed
So does age, I hear tell, and it’s a lot cheaper
I don’t know, babe, a funk of some kind
Not contagious I hope but beware
Just in case, don’t want to spread this around
Don’t’ think there’s a shot at the clinic
For this kind of sick, soul sick, deep sick
Hey, don’t let it worry you, I don’t stay down
Not for long, anyway, I know all my ills
They’re just self inflicted, I’m just too stubborn to stop
Too damned stubborn to stop
He sighed and lit up another bowl and I walked away
Some things even the best of friends can’t share