I sold my soul to a heretic,
For a bag of you on tick.
Now all I’ve gots left is a panic attack.
I sold my soul to a teenage smick,
For a bag of us on tick.
Can you tell me what the point is in that.

Well if love is the drug then lend me a score,
If love is the drug I will be your whore.
If love is the drug then give me more.

And I won’t regret you tomorrow like they say I will,
I am sick, your my pill.
I’m not leaving, never coming down. 
I sold my soul for thrills.
And you don’t know & that’s what kills. 

I sold my soul to the diocese,
For a gram of you & me. 
Now all I’ve gots left is brick-a-brack. 
I sold my soul to a shebeen queen,
I wanted love but I got poitín. 
Now all I’ve gots left is a panic attack.

You on tick

L’appel du vide

John Kearns Joshua Kearns - Need to be used

I once knew a man who dealt in cheese from china,
and I seen him fall in many ways.
Stuck on the path in a psychedelic trance,
sniffing food for plants on Saturdays.
And he spun about in his Renault Clio,
the car scraping inches off the ground.
That cheesy smile deteriorated,
I could see he was about to drown.

Sucking lungs down alleyways,
Watching the rain roll off his car.
Saving a lung for a rainy day,
A rainy day is never far.

He walks between the rock and the hard place,
Not a spot of luck behind his back.
On the run from the pigs with guns,
He stole some drink and then yea he got sacked.
His eyes were red,
His mouth was dry,
He looked so low yet he was high.
Then Sunday came and his fears sunk in,
Wishing Monday morning would just die.

Sucking lungs down alleyways,
Watching the rain roll off his car.
Saving a lung for a rainy day,
A rainy day is never far.

Sticks and stones may break his bones,
But mephedrone will melt his skin.
The crystal chemicals always win.


Chinese Cheese

The Smick Banshee

I heard the bouncer shout,
I got carried out.
Pulled out, picked up,
Thrown on the street, like a feg butt.
I was, soaking wet,
A mixture of rain, blood and sweat,
It was, half past 12.
And the woman with the roses, tryna sell,
Me a rose cause I'm intoxicated,
she knew by my eyes, my pupils were dilated,
And she, said to me,
"Buy a rose and I'll set you free"
So I, gave her a pound,
But not in her hand I threw it straight to the ground and I,
Stumbled on and on and on.

Buy a rose and I'll set you free,
Free from these people,
Free from me.
Buy a rose and I'll let you go.

So she freed me from this town,
Into euphoria,
My feet were lifted off the ground.
Suddenly I seen bright lights,
I started to wonder did I get spiked.
I looked down and it was gone,
The woman with the roses told the truth all along,
She set me free,
Free from these people who lie and cheat,
She let me out,
Out of my sorrow she knew nothing about.
Turned out, I was dead all along.

Buy a rose and I'll set you free,
Free from these people,
Free from me.
Buy a rose and I'll let you go. 

Buy a rose



Don't get too high or you won't comedown,
It's the sun in my eyes burning my brain to the ground,
Snow blind, what's the time, all I hear is tick tock.
With my head in the pillow wearing yesterdays socks,
I had a dream you were mine,
I woke up you were gone,
Blurry eyed, the sun it shines but the curtains are drawn.
Cut loose, out your life you say I'm stuck in a rut,
Sipping water from a glass that's been sitting for months.

So I sit and wait so patiently in this state of anxiety,
so come on down enjoy the show,
there was nothing left,
when you left this town.
I got too high now I can't comedown.

I once was gold then I turned to lead,
nothing like self-loathing in an unmade bed,
Heart rate, palpitate, a thin layer of sweat.
Clutching my jugular as if it's gonna help.

So I sit and wait so patiently in this state of anxiety,
so come on down enjoy the show,
there was nothing left,
when you left this town.
I got too high now I can't comedown.


John L Kearns

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