CLIMBING THE LADDER By Tom Jensen
You'd be wise to take my advice
Before you fall in love
With a fool's paradise
You had better think twice
I don't have any vices
And that's priceless
Considering where I've come from
Everything I once believed in
Was so misleading
I'm lucky I'm still breathing
Considering all the things I've done
I scaled the drug ladder
Straight to the top
Got up so high
I almost couldn't get of
I could not control
The cravings inside my brain
That boy's on the ladder
And he's climbing up again
From cigarettes...
To booze...
To weed...
To speed...
To acid ...
To mushrooms...
To E...
To crack-cocaine
You'd be wise to take my advice
Before you fall in love
With a fool's paradise
You had better think twice
A lot of my old friends
Now sleep in the gutter
Toss an eight ball on the table
And watch them try to kill each other
My d-d-dad's a p-p-pothead
Who s-s-speaks with a s-s-stutter
Just another nicotine fiend
That describes my mother
A raging alcoholic
Yeah, that's my brother
And my sister…well guys
I suggest you use a rubber
There, now I think
I've got everybody covered
If you want to know about somebody
Investigate their friends and family
Even still I’m not quite sure
How I let it happen to me
But I've escaped the demons
And now I'm free
You'd be wise to take my advice
Before you fall in love
With a fool's paradise
You had better think twice
Well if you're hooked
And you're looking to beat it
Listen closely and I'll tell you a secret
If you've climbed the ladder so high
That you duck when planes fly
You can't just jump off or else you’ll die
It's too hard to cold turkey
What was years in the making
Pressure like that
Is like an oven baking
You managed to climb up
So you've got to climb back down
One step at a time
Until your feet hit the ground