Knockin' Myself Out

Listen, girls and boys

I got one stick

Give me a match

And let me take a whiff quick

I'm gonna knock myself out

Yes, I'm gonna kill myself

I'm gonna knock myself out

Gradually by degrees

I started blowing my gage

And I was havin' my fun

I spied the police

And I started to run

I was knocking myself out

Yes, I was killing myself

I was knocking myself out

Gradually by degrees

But the very moment

I looked around

My mind said, 'Lil, throw that gage on the ground'

The police captain said 'Kill yourself!'

The police captain said 'Kill yourself!'

He said 'Knock yourself out, yeah

Gradually by degrees.'

I used to didn't blow gage

Drank nothin' of the kind

But my man quit me and that changed my mind

That's why I knocked myself out

Yes, I just killed myself

I knocked myself out

Gradually by degrees

I'm gonna blow this jive

It's a sin and a shame

But it's the only thing

That ease my heart about my man

Is when I knock myself out

Lord, when I kill myself

I just knock myself smack out

Gradually by degrees