Waster

I never really understood you
A gobby kid singing ripped off Beatles tunes
I never really got the message:
What made you so damned impressive?

I guess it's all about attitude
Taking drugs means being cool but
Fuck me, you had it all and then
You went and spaffed it up the wall

Crack cocaine and heroin
And ketamine
More snow than Klosters in an avalanche

And I don't think it's very bright
The wasted days and wasted nights
It's fundamentally aberrant
The wasted chances, the waste of talent

Just think of what you could have been
If you had kept your nasal passage clean
Just think of all the cash you've blown
By banging white lines up your nose

Crack cocaine and heroin
And ketamine
More snow than Klosters in an avalanche

And I'm suspicious of the type who
Need a fix to summon forth their muse
It's nothing new, it's all been done by
Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley

It's all a part of rock 'n' roll
Taking drugs and being an arsehole
It's all a cabaret, it's all a show
Vaudeville with falling snow

Crack cocaine and heroin
And ketamine
More snow than Klosters in an avalanche

And look at what it turns you into
Someone who'd bleed their best friend dry
And all the sadness that it leads to
When everyone you love just says goodbye

It's not funny, it's not nice
You just can't calculate the price
Feel the need to feed the beast
Trapped inside your sad disease

Crack cocaine and heroin
And ketamine
More snow than Klosters in an avalanche
More snow than Klosters in an avalanche