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Sorry I Just Cant Feel Bad For You

I have arguments all the time with my friends
last nights was all about diseases,
in my opinion  
cancer is a disease
MS is a disease
there are many types of diseases
that fall under the disease category
but I'm sorry I have a hard time with the druggies and boozers,
drug addicts and drunks don't have a disease
if they have anything
it's a self inflicted wound

Vietnam vets who were seriously injured
pumped full of morphine and heroine and sent home
it was not there fault they were a junky when they came back
well not entirely
but.......
if you knew the consequences of doing
heroine, crack, cocaine or drinking til your drop
then I have a hard time classifying addiction as a disease
when someone kills themselves its suicide, not murder
so how can addiction be a disease?

I tend to have sympathy for those with cancer
or anything they didn't go knocking on someones door
at 4am with their great grandmas jewelery box to get
I don't feel sorry for the pillheads, junkies or drunks
I can't,
if your dad was raging alcoholic, and you grow up to be one
well you knew the consequences, you lived with them
for many years, yet you still choose that road?  
again I cant feel sorry for you

I don't know about the rest of the world
growing up I had a TV, I saw junkies everyday on it
I never once looked at that kind of image and thought
gee that's what I want to be when I grow up
more like the complete opposite, never wanting to be like that.
who watched Requiem For a Dream, and thought damn
that's who I want to be?! no one I know

I smoke my weed
but I can grow it in my backyard or basement
I'll never steal anyone's purse to get it
I won't rob a helpless old lady
you won't find me passed out in my own vomit
because I smoked to much

I know first hand about junkies and drunks
two of my good friends are drinking themselves silly
together they're trashed by 5:30 everyday
faces on the floor, talking shit about suicide
everything sucks, and while your up grab me another beer
I cant watch anymore, it saddens me
they're killing themselves slowly, that is not a disease
again its self inflicted, and one of them is getting wet brain
he is hallucinating when he is drunk, so yeah awesome

I was married to someone who went from a great guy
to a drug addict within a matter of three years
watching him deteriorate,
I know all about having to take my valuables to bed with me
or taking my purse when I shower and being lied to
and drooled on, it was everyone's fault but his own
he never saw his hand in any of it, that bugged me the most
he wanted sympathy, he wanted me to feel sorry for him
always saying he needed them, that fucking made me sick

no one with cancer needs it or wants it
they didn't rifle through anyone's purse to get money
for cancer or Ms or any other disease
they were diagnosed with it
they do everything they can do to fight it

In short if you drink yourself into a stupor
or shoot up or swallow or sniff or smoke yourself stupid
its your own fucking fault,its not some disease
its an addiction, stop wallowing in self pity
and do something about it, if you don't oh well
just don't go ripping off someones granny to get your fix
or drive drunk and kill someone to get a beer
those are crimes not symptoms of disease


































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