Sublime - Pool Shark- acoustic
"Lyin' in my plastic bed
Thinking how things weren't so cool to me
My baby likes to shoot pool
I like lyin' naked in my bedroom
Tying on the dinosaur, tonight
It used to be so cool, too"
"But now I've got the needle
And I can shake, but I can't breathe
I take it away, but I want more and more
One day, I'm gonna lose the war"
Bradley, lead singer of Sublime, released this version on their first CD. 'His plastic bed', a bodybag. 'Tying on the dinosaur', shooting heroin. 'One day I'm going to lose the war', a prophetic testament to his eventual OD.
Addiction is the scarlet letter of our time. That sanguine letter forever marks so many of us. It's a wound that forever festers, and is never truly healed. It's been many years since I stood at that precipice, yet it still seeks to define me.
