Born from hippies back in sixty nine I was bored by 1992 I walked into a recruitment office a year before that They said, "Son, we've been waiting for you"
Discharged from the Gulf War the very same year I came home with a carton or two Of cigarettes and mix tapes and bullets from a gun That my dead best friend never did use
Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you Let your sweaty embrace open wide 'Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like most people do And I need all your ground to survive
Wasted and downtrodden, only in vain I cried myself blind at the sight Of the old shopping center where we used to ride Now condos as sterile as I
So I bought me an old air stream for three thousand bucks From a drug dealer I used to owe And I thought to myself as I slept off a high The irony is starting to show
Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you Let your sweaty embrace open wide 'Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like some people do And I need all your ground to survive
Drove out to Asheville that's where you were Where you married into money and pills And I wanted so bad to be good with you now The fact is that you never will
'Cause some become lovers because of the sex And some you know, they just become friends yaeh!! In our case I just became bad at it all I never got good at it again
Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you Let your sweaty embrace open wide 'Cause Atlanta, I'm suffocating like some people do And I need all your air to survive