Born from hippies in 1969   Bored by 92   Walked into a recruitment office they said   Son we’ve been waiting for you   Discharged from the gulf war the very same year   Came home with a carton or two   Of cigarettes, mixtapes, and bullets from a gun   My dead best friend never did use      Oh Atlanta please need me   Like I needed you   Let your sweaty embrace open wide   Cuz Atlanta I’ve fallen   Like some people do   And I need all your ground to survive   (cuz Atlanta I’m smothered like    some people get   and I need all your air to survive)      wasted, downtrodden, and lonely in vain   I cried myself blind at the site   Of the old shopping center where we used to ride   Now condos as sterile as i   I bought an old airstream for 3000 bucks   From a drug dealer I used to owe   I thought to myself as I slept off a high   The irony’s starting to show      Oh Atlanta please need me   Like I needed you   Let your sweaty embrace open wide   Cuz Atlanta I’ve fallen   Like some people do   And I need all your ground to survive   (cuz Atlanta I’m smothered like    some people get   and I need all your air to survive)      I drove out to Asheville cuz that’s where you were   Where you married into money and pills   And I wanted so bad to be good with you now   But the fact is that you never Will   Because some become lovers because of the sex   Sometimes they just become friends   In our case, I just became bad at it all   And never got good at it again   Oh Atlanta please need me   Like I needed you   Let your sweaty embrace open wide   Cuz Atlanta I’ve fallen   Like some people do   And I need all your ground to survive   (cuz Atlanta I’m smothered like    some people get   and I need all your air to survive)