When I heard you, I trembled
You were my prescription drug for happiness
To stop my flow of over-the-counter one night stands
You were my anti-depressant
My sleep pill to cease my restless nights
My anesthesia to keep me numb, my laughing gas to make me smile unknowningly
You were my antibiotic to fight off my plague
And I needed you
Because you were my daily dose, my draught of living death, my capsules of elation, my injection to a legal high
But you were also my opium
And you turned my hair grey and my eyes red
My skin dry and my bones weak
And my lungs struggled to fight for air
You were my knife slathered in honey,
You were my something sweet that kept me dying
My greatest remedy until you were my greatest enemy
But I never learned to keep my medicine cabinet locked up
Until my lid was tossed and my pills were all gone and my bottle was empty
