Jazz ballad: Jerry & Kassandra ("Drugs and Drink")

Jerry loved Kassandra and Sandra loved cocaine

Well you can see that this is headed for a real sad ending

But maybe not the one that you think

About drugs and drink

That powder don't blow for pennies

Tequila well they call it gold

Jerry used to dream they'd have a nice new home

But every dime he made became a link

To her drugs and drink

He said baby I'd give you my breath and blood

But I can't keep helping you die

If you don't put down I swear to God I'm gone

But Sandra grabbed and his jacket sleeves

She fell on her knees and cried

So he lost himself to keep her keepin' on

Jerry was raised up righteous

But good love can take a real bad turn

Soon he started stealin' just to feed her demons

And every dirty dollar helped her sink

Into drugs and drink

Jerry went up on charges

Sandra went straight downhill

She bottomed out in treatment with the Jesus people

Born again with Jerry in the clink

For her drugs and drink

Now Jerry waits in an eight-foot cell

For letters that never come

And Sandra shuts those days out of her mind

But sometimes she senses a tender voice

Like the sound of a distant drum

Calling faintly from the world she left behind

Maybe like all sad stories this one hits close to home

The world is full of pretty things that hook and kill you

It turns around as fast as you can blink