BUTCH WALKER - ATL lyrics

rate me

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Born from hippies back in '69 <br>

I was bored by 1992 <br>

I walked into a recruitment office a year before that <br>

Said 'son we've been waiting for you' <br>

Discharged from a Gulf War the very same year <br>

I came home with a car and a tomb <br>

Of cigarettes and mixtapes and bullets from a gun <br>

That my dead best friend never could use <br>

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Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you <br>

Let your sweaty embrace open wide <br>

'Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like most people do <br>

And I need all your ground to survive <br>

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Wasted and down trodden along the hidden vein <br>

I cried myself blind at the sight <br>

Of the old shopping center where we used to ride <br>

Now condos as sterile as I <br>

So I bought me an old Airstream for 3,000 bucks <br>

From a drug dealer I used to owe <br>

And I thought to myself as I slept off a high <br>

The irony is starting to show <br>

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Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you <br>

Let your sweaty embrace open wide <br>

'Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like some people do <br>

And I need all your ground to survive <br>

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Drove out to Asheville, 'cause that's where you were <br>

Where you married into money and pills <br>

And I wanted so bad to be good with you now <br>

But the fact is that you never will <br>

Cause some become lovers because of sex <br>

And some, you know, they just become friends <br>

Heyyyy <br>

In our case, we just became bad at it all <br>

And never got good at it again <br>

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Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you <br>

Let your sweaty embrace open wide <br>

'Cause Atlanta, I'm suffocating like some people do <br>

And I need all your air to survive<br>

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