Easy Way / Hard Way

Early light
Lost behind greys and whites
Morning chill got colder still
All the weight of a life of excess
Baring down on buckling knees
We’re broke; she’s the measure of success
We really are dying by degrees
Then out of nowhere surrounded on all sides
Before we had time to realize
90th precinct shakedown
Easiest way to feel love in this town
Got a new cell mate
Heard him out
Why is it the addicts are the only ones
Who’ve got it figured out?
He talked at me for hours
Left nothing unsaid, he covered it all
In the midst of a massive coke comedown
I may as well have been a brick wall
Lessons learned that day:
In cold blood Courtney killed Kurt
Keeping sex on the internet protects a man from getting hurt
Sell food up on grand street, put the kids through school
Might be missing a few teeth, but I’m nobody’s fool