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Artist: Butch Walker
Canonical path: /butch-walker/atlanta
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Atlanta
Read Atlanta lyrics by Butch Walker on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Atlanta
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Born from hippies in 1969
Bored by 1992
I walked into a recruitment office they said
Son we've been looking for you
Discharged from the gulf war the very same year
Came home with a carton or two
Of cigarettes, mixtapes, and bullets from a gun
My dead best friend never did use
Oh atlanta please need me
Like i needed you
Let your sweaty embrace open wide
Cuz atlanta i've fallen
Like some people do
And i need all your ground to survive
(cuz atlanta i'm smothered like
Some people get
And i need all your air to survive)
Wasted, downtrodden, and lonely in vain
I cried myself to sleep at the site
Of the old shopping center where we used to ride
Now condos as sterile as i
I bought an old airstream for 3000 bucks
From a drug dealer i used to owe
I thought to myself as i slept off a high
The irony's starting to show
Oh atlanta please need me
Like i needed you
Let your sweaty embrace open wide
Cuz atlanta i've fallen
Like some people do
And i need all your ground to survive
(cuz atlanta i'm smothered like
Some people get
And i need all your air to survive)
I drove out to asheville cuz that's where you were
Where you married into money and pills
And i wanted so bad to be good with you now
But the fact is that you never will
Because some become lovers because of the sex
Sometimes they just become friends
In our case, i just became bad at it all
And never got good at it again
Oh atlanta please need me
Like i needed you
Let your sweaty embrace open wide
Cuz atlanta i've fallen
Like some people do
And i need all your ground to survive
(cuz atlanta i'm smothered like
Some people get
And i need all your air to survive)
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