Florida

Well, look out Florida

You got a hooker in your back

She's riding high with some trick on Sligh street

She's in the corner store of the Sonoco

Trying to buy cigarettes

She says it's her birthday, God help her

She asks you for a pack of cigarettes

She gives you a wink and shakes her ass one time

You go and get yourself three more dollars

For some mad-dog blueberry wine

Well, your friends are getting married

Ready to have their kids and you're still out here

Bringing bum wine home

Having so much goddamn sugar

Trying to stay sober

But you never ever feel at home

Nothing good comes from Florida including you

Oh, your hair looks so black and blue

Keep me ready lord, keep me steady lord

Come back home, honey

When everything falls apart for you

Florida Avenue with them limp legged-lovers

She says boyfriend beats her down

In the Dutch Motel outside Hillsborough Avenue

Where them young boys can't make it downtown

She a dancer, she's a lover, she's a money making

Girl who's ready for a fight

You ask her where she's from

She says, pay that no never mind

Left my old town cause it was shit

Living in this new town but it's shit too

Got to be somewhere better than this

I promise you my teeth if you promise me your hand

I'm going to give you the most beautiful funeral that I possibly can

We may never grow old but we sure as hell can't stay young

I'm going to be your American child until the setting Sun

Go down the street honey sell that ass

It's a quick way to make some cash

Josephine, don't you cry

I know you're trying to get sober today

But it might have to wait one more day

You know, I gotta get high

All your friends think it's funny that we ain't got any money

Laying in this dutch motel all day, laying in bed all day

You know dogs like us, were meant to run wild like wolves

You know dogs like us were meant to run wild like wolves

But instead we're tamed, by the same damn thing

I grew up in my old town Lord, it wasn't shit

Got me a new town honey said, got to get better than this

All this downtown casino living is gonna make you mean

The methadone clinic won't get you sober, but it will get you clean