Dead Set on Living

Album: Dead Set on Living (2012)
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  • Hard drinks and nicotine
    Chase that with Benzedrine
    The toxic parties pumping
    Through my brain and out my spleen

    Gimme poison put the inside of me
    I need that quick explosion
    Keep me going make me feel
    I will never forget

    Rage 'til the break of dawn
    Won't stop until it's gone
    There never was a problem
    Nothing's broken nothing’s wrong

    Gimme poison put it inside me
    There's nothing like forgetting
    Can't contain me set me free
    I will never forget

    The day the doctor told me son, you're gonna die
    If you continue to live like this
    You've got another year at best

    15 years is a hard habit to quit

    Cocaine and cigarettes
    Stacked up with all the stress
    Now mix with tons of boozing
    In excess oh what a mess

    Gimme poison that shit was killing me
    All this for cheap excitement
    Float my coffin out to sea

    The day the doctor told me son you're gonna die
    I decided then and there to get
    Dead set on living Writer/s: JAYE SCHWARZER, Liam Joseph Cormier, MICHAEL RYAN PETERS, Scott Andrew Middleton
    Publisher: Lyst Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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