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“Life Is A Gateway Drug”

Life is a Gateway Drug, to whisky and cocaine
Life leads to heroin, and then you're dead again.
Life is a Gateway Drug, to whisky and cocaine
Life leads to heroin, and then you start again.

I first met her down at the Townie,
As the bouncer she did berate,
As I offered to call an ambulance,
She said, F-you I'm feeling great.
I didn't have very high standards,
So I asked her on a date.
She laughed at me halitosisely,
as this mantra she did relate. And it went –

Life is a Gateway Drug, to whisky and cocaine
Life leads to heroin, and then you're dead again.
Or in French
La vie est un gateway drug, à whiskey et cocaïne
La vie mené a l'héroïne, and then you're dead again.

She turned up the very next evening,
at my AA meeting place.
She stumbled in with a gallon of gin
And a coke straw in her face.
As the circle got to her, we asked what she needed to say.
She spun that bottle on the floor and sang,
Let's hit our low points again, let's hit them low points people because –

Life is a Gateway Drug, to whisky and cocaine
Life leads to heroin, and then you're dead again.
Or in Frenglish
La vie est un gateway drug, à whiskey et cocaïne
La vie mené a l'héroïne, and then you're dead again.

She's gonna eat every bit of the weekend,
And leave nothing on her plate
And when it comes to alcohol
she’ll leave nothing up to fate.
She hasn't slept for three nights now
She’s beginning to hallucinate.
When you ask RUOK her mantra she’ll relate.

I think we all know it out there - follow the bouncing ball.
There's be bouncing balls along the bottom of the screen I'm sure.

It goes -

Life is a Gateway Drug, to whisky and cocaine
Life leads to heroin, and then you're dead again.
Life is a Gateway Drug, to whisky and cocaine
Life leads to heroin, and then you start again.

Let's take it up to the top shelf!

Life is a Gateway Drug, to whisky and cocaine
Life leads to heroin, and then you're dead again.
Life is a Gateway Drug, to whisky and cocaine
Life leads to heroin, and then you start again.

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from A Suburban Bukowski Solo at Sally's Sound Hole, released August 16, 2021

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Suburban Bukowskis Sydney, Australia

Upbeat, folky, funny neo-beatnik tales of failure, fun, and excess in the wild inner-west are trademark of the narrative poem-songs (or pongs) penned by award-winning playwright and poet, Benito Di Fonzo. Accompanied by veteran bassist Mike Sheehan, drummer Justine Wahlin, and lead guitarist Pete Fenwick. Rhum.org.au called Benito's writing, "Clever, witty, sharp and surreal.” " ... more

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