The World We Live In

Eric

That ecstasy takes me on the best trip ever,

I’m in a world where I’m floating on a cloud.

Not a care in the world and a love for this feeling,

Endless amounts of this and I’m in heaven.

A lifetime of taking this drug will eventually kill me,

But when I’m on this trip, I’m in the happiest place.

It’s my favorite drug, I’ll admit that,

I take a few others ones too but I need this regularly.

I don’t worry about going on a trip and not coming back,

I’m more concerned with escaping from reality we call the world.

There’s no better feeling in the world than the high I get,

Every day my body just needs it to get through.

It’s like people and their need for caffeine every morning,

Or they can’t function and they’re grumpy all day.

I live in a shack with a bunch of friends who get high like me,

Just wasting our days being high as a kite in the sky.

I’ve been fired from numerous jobs because I fail drug tests,

No one will hire me now because I’m the known drug addict.

High school was my start to taking drugs and I tried ecstasy,

I never experienced a feeling like this ever in my life.

I know the question comes, why did I start taking drugs,

To be honest, in a dysfunctional home, I needed an escape.

 Being the middle child of 3 wasn’t easy at all,

The oldest and youngest are the ones who are watched the most.

So I became the rebel, the wild child who disobeyed my parents,

Authority wasn’t something I can deal with or handle.

My dad was always on the road driving the trucks during the week,

On the weekends he’d be home chugging beers and chastising my mother.

My mother was too busy taking care of my brother and sister,

So there was no attention being given to me so I did my own thing.

Now that I’m older and out of school, I don’t live with my family,

I live in this tore up house full of drugs and liquor every day.

Some days I don’t know how I get by because I don’t eat,

I wake up from my trip and I need another pill to take.

It’s an addiction that I can’t shake at all,

My body goes into shock when there aren’t any drugs in me.