Butch Walker - ATL lyrics

Born from hippies back in 1969 I was bored by 1992 I walked into a recruitment office a year before that They said "Son, we've been waiting for you" Discharged from the Gulf War the very same year I came home with a carton or two Of cigarettes and mixtapes and bullets from a gun That my dead best friend never did use Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you Let your sweaty embrace open wide Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like most people do And I need all your ground to survive Wasted and downtrodden, only in vain I cried myself blind at the sight Of the old shopping center where we used to ride Now condos as sterile as I So I bought me an old Airstream for three thousand bucks From a drug dealer I used to owe And I thought to myself as I slept off a high The irony is starting to show Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you Let your sweaty embrace open wide Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like some people do And I need all your ground to survive Drove out to Asheville ‘cause 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, I never will Because some become lovers because of the s** And some you know, they just become friends In our case I just became bad at it all And I never got good at it again Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you Let your sweaty embrace open wide Cause Atlanta, I'm suffocating like some people do And I need all your air to survive