The Junkie and the Juicehead (Minus Me)

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[00:00.20] I was a stumble bummin' down the neon Music City sidewalks [00:07.36] With the Junkie and the Juicehead who had problems of their own [00:12.31] Stuck with luck it kept me standin' just a step away from starvin' [00:18.87] And the talent that I swore I'd show before I'd go back home [00:24.13] Ninety days I looked the army makin' neither love nor money [00:30.48] And my only set of clothes was gettin' closer to the bone [00:35.61] And the Junkie placed an order with the Prophet on the corner [00:40.74] And he told him of the soul that he'd been sellin' for a song [00:46.02] He said my future was my fortune but I let it slip away [00:52.11] Slowly smokin' myself broke on eighty cigarettes a day [00:57.16] Findin' out that crime ain't all there is that doesn't pay [01:02.36] And writin' words that no one's gonna see but did you said it who said it [01:08.85] I can read my fortune in the bottom of a glass [01:12.51] And I can see it's time for me to make my last request [01:17.57] Won't you fill my grave with whiskey when I'm laid away to rest [01:22.42] So the boys can say I drank myself to dead [01:26.79] Well I drank the whole thing over puttin' one and two together [01:32.93] And it added up to more of what I didn't wanna be [01:38.02] I ain't blamin' Music City but it's only gonna see me [01:44.67] One more day and the wake up and the time it takes to leave [01:49.89] 'Cause I got a dirty picture of what could have been my future [01:56.00] In a Prophet pushin' day dreams on a corner for a fee [02:01.11] And the wino lookin' lonely at a bottle gettin' empty [02:06.12] And a hungry lookin' junkie huntin' tea in sympathy [02:11.32] And I bet that junkie's laughin' after the life he threw away [02:17.30] Slowly smokin' himself broke on eighty cigarettes a day [02:22.69] Pleadin' down the Prophet to a price that he can pay [02:27.66] And writin' words that no one's gonna see but did you said it who said it [02:33.66] Every empty bottle is my private crystal ball [02:37.84] And starin' to the future findin' nothin' there at all [02:43.31] Which is what I'll miss tomorrow when the neon shadows fall [02:47.87] On the Junkie and the Juicehead minus me [02:59.11]