met a fine red boned mami she told me that her name was lucille met her on fountain avenue sitting on a cadillac coupe de ville she said i m a liar a thief a junkie and i used to be a whore and i ve been trying to shake this monkey so long i just can t take it no more i got a weakness i got a hunger i got a jones i m sick and i need to get well i hurt deep in my bone i got a weakness i got a fever i got a thirst i m sitting on the edge of the bubble just waiting for it to burst we talked all afternoon she made me cry i told some jokes she looked me deep in my eyes and told me love was nothing but a cruel hoax her grandmother died when she was five and she never did know her folks her father fell in a gun fight and her mother by an overdose i got a weakness i got a hunger i got a jones i m sick and i need to get well i hurt deep in my bones i got a weakness i got a fever i got a thirst i m sitting on the edge of the bubble just waiting for it to burst she said i ve slept with gangsters thugs and smugglers congressman and governors i ve seen therapists and holy men but this weakness is my only friend it feeds my need it numbs my soul it starts to creep and takes control sell my flesh i pierce my skin and tomorrow i ma do it all again i got a weakness i got a hunger i got a jones i m sick and i need to get well i hurt deep in my bones i got a weakness i got a fever i got a thirst i m sitting on the edge of the bubble just waiting for it to burst 