Ballad Of Dusty

Ohhh...yeah, yeah...yea boy...look a here...

Man, I done ten more lines than Etch-A-Sketch in my time

better catch you fetchin' by nine; better blast your right mind

if soft makes you feel hard; hard makes you feel soft

got a fifty, a pack of cigarettes, a brew and a cough

and I've been doin' this stuff from often to off and on

I've been face down all alone in the rain in the early mornin'

next wife into alimony, it goes on and on and on it

dog-gone it I've been on it so long I'm my only opponent

should've know it, I know I had a ring but I had to pawn it

I had to hold it; I stole it off of the top of a toilet

from a friend, for my sins, fingerprints are in a folder

that the police holds; I get colder as I get older, y'all

I don't want to live and I don't want to die

I just have to laugh 'cause I don't want to cry

My mother left me alone and I never met my dad

I've been abnormal since birth tryin' to wreck the pad

I've was raised by my Gramps since I was three years old

and all I ever wanted, was to be out of control

I made a clever disguise, became brilliant with lies

and pretended that I loved everything I despised

I worked hard to be liked and over did it at times

to much pressure to walk the line, so I committed some crimes

dropped out of school in the ninth; ran into cooler than I

had the weed, brews and pints and friends that love to fight

the fools that I beat-up and all the times that I got beat down

I got reputation always desired; now I'm tired

I don't want to live and I don't want to die

I just have to laugh 'cause I don't want to cry

I'm always rhymin' on the break down; 'cause all I do is break down

when nobody's lookin', tears runnin' like greyhounds

my remedy is to clown, laugh and talk garbage

'cause what's really goin' on is the 18-wheeler of baggage

imagine a whole lineage of illiage, drug-addicts and idiots, mental patients,

my family tree is straight insidious like it was water with alcohol

but I wouldn't have it any other way; I love y'all!

I don't want to live and I don't want to die

I just have to laugh 'cause I don't want to cry

I don't want to live and I don't want to die

I just have to laugh 'cause I don't want to cry

I don't want to live and I don't want to die

I just have to laugh 'cause I don't want to cry

I don't want to live and I don't want to die

I just have to laugh 'cause I don't want to cry