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 !@^%
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 take control
I sell my flesh, I pierce my skin

And tomorrow I'ma do it all again

'Cause 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