Mary Jane

He was a quiet boy in seventh grade

She had a little red streak in her twisted brains

He was curious and asked, what's your name?

Her green eyes answered Mary Jane

They met up Friday after school

He lit her up, she made him feel cool

He could hurt all night and not feel pain

Just looking at the stars with Mary Jane

She got him to grow up fast

That innocence you don't give back

The way he saw the world started to change

Felt so good when she was around

But every up took him further down

And he ain't ever really been the same

Since Mary Jane

He met her hippie friends one day

Wearing tie-dye, singing 'Touch of gray'

They took trips real far away

And were wilder than Mary Jane

There was a girl on the road with a tempting face

She rode a white horse and they found a place

Where she put a craving in his veins

Now he don't even talk to Mary Jane

She got him to grow up fast

That innocence you don't give back

The way he saw the world started to change

Felt so good when she was around

But every up took him further down

And he ain't ever really been the same

Yeah, since Mary Jane he went

From high school straight to state rehab

Seventeen to thirty-five

Life of the party to barely alive

Now he in the church of redeeming grace

Some people cry some people pray

There's folding chairs and coffee mates

And chips to count their day by day

That they quit that Mary Jane

Yeah, they all quit that Mary Jane

He was a quiet boy in seventh grade

She had a little red streak in her twisted brains