Weakness

Met a fine redbone mama

She told me that her name was Lucille

Met her on Fountain Avenue

Sittin' on the back of a Cadillac Coupe de Ville

She said I'm a liar, a thief, I'm a junkie

And I used to be a whore

And I've been trying to shake this monkey so long

I just can't take it no more

And she said I got a weakness

I got a hunger, I got a jones

I'm sick and I need to get well

I hurt deep in my bones

And I got a weakness

I got a fever, I got a thirst

I'm sittin' on the edge of the bottle

Just waiting for it to burst

We talked all afternoon

She made me cry, I told some jokes

She looked me deep in my eyes

Told me love was nothing but a cruel hoax

Her grandma died when she was five

And she never did know her folks

Her father fell in a gunfight

And her mother by an overdose

And she said I got a weakness

I got a hunger, I got a jones

I'm sick and I need to get well

I hurt deep in my bones

And I got a weakness

I got a fever, I got a thirst

I'm sittin' on the edge of the bottle

Just waiting for it to burst

She said I've slept with gangsters, thugs, and smugglers

Congressmen and governors

I've seen therapists and holy men

But this weakness is my only friend

It feeds my need and numbs my soul

It starts to creep and take control

I sell my flesh, pierce my skin

And tomorrow I'll do it all again

'Cause I got a weakness

I got a hunger, I got a jones

I'm sick and I need to get well

I hurt deep in my bones

I got a weakness

I got a fever, I got a thirst

I'm sittin' on the edge of the bottle

Just waiting for it to burst