To be a teenager
Is to spend your first paycheck on chewing gum and cigarettes
And from a young age
We learned to inhale and forget
Tobacco, nicotine
A knife to our skin solves all our problems
Chewing gum and cigarettes
Go hand in hand
Until your lungs are black as your heart
Pass the dart
But we aren't just playing a game
It's jeopardy with our lives
Counting fives
To get another pack
We are all addicted to something
The cold burn of spearmint
The harsh feeling of THC that we spend too much money to get our hands on at fifteen
Mary J is becoming my childhood best friend
And I've told myself all these years I wouldn't turn out to be an addict
To be a teenager
Is to be a addicted
Addicted to love
To attention
To drugs
To good grades
The female gaze
It's all the same
Chewing gum and cigarettes
Is just my poison of choice