Heroin Nation - Ryan Cassata, Lee

I’m straight sick of seeing my people dying

They end up sleeping in the streets, their brains been out frying

Say, «Oh what?» Do you think that I’m just lying?

It’s running rampant like a serial killer all across Long Island

Like a grim reaper, it’ll fucking keep ya

Needle in your arm deeper, jumped a pawn, beat ya, straight gone

You used to have it going on, now you’re nodding on the lawn

And stealing from your own mom

Your hearts exploding like a bomb

Here I am, heroin, I’ll come and get you, here I am depend on me and now you

can’t defend you

You just can’t fend yourself, like I just can’t blame myself

You got a bent silver spoon heating up in your room

Now you’re gone to soon my brother, boy did I love ya

It’s sad we had to discover your beneath the cover

Now it’s much to late, 16 year old in a coffin at a wake

I hate thinking this was God’s fate to keep us all awake

I close my eyes tonight

I wish that I could see

See you alive

I close my eyes tonight

I wish that I could see

See you alive

What, you don’t wanna talk about this?

I bring it up and you just want to bust my lip

But man, this is some real deep shit, it’s dragging them out and it’s killing

these kids

Now look at Good Samaritan, it’s filling right up

There’s not even enough rooms, people be lined up

There’s an overdose in every other bed, that hospital is a grave yard for the

living dead

Won’t you start treating them like they’re sick and not like they’re bad?

Start giving them the treatment that you wish that you had

Maybe it’s true the governments conspiring to eliminate some people and not do

the hiring

Shouldn’t the big man be going out to save them instead of turning his back on

the heroin nation?

And fuck all you doctors pushing these pills, kids are getting hooked,

and all you care about is bills

I close my eyes tonight

I wish that I could see

See you alive

I close my eyes tonight

I wish that I could see

See you alive

So how many kids do we have to lose?

Start at the blues, now headlining the news

It’s a lifestyle that some don’t choose

They’re just thrown into it, pushed on the pills, what if it’s you?

What if it’s your kid, what would you do?

Would you swap it out and trade with him no oxycontin blues?

What if it’s your kid, shaking with chills?

What if it’s your kid? Oh, another one killed!

I close my eyes tonight

I wish that I could see

See you alive

I close my eyes tonight

I wish that I could see

See you alive

I close my eyes, I close my eyes, I close my eyes

Don’t Close Your Eyes