Intro – Spoken, over a dusty boom bap beat with vinyl crackle and a sampled soul loop] Yeah. No one wakes up a junky. No one plans it. No one dreams it. It just happens. Check it. [Verse 1 – Measured, storytelling flow] No one wakes up a junky, that's the fact, that's the truth It starts with a feeling that you can't compute Pain in your chest you can't explain Hole in your soul that you can't contain You fill it with something, anything that works Drink, a pill, a powder, a perk One time, just once, that's what you tell yourself But the devil don't ask, he just takes the shelf And he moves in slow, like a whisper, like a breeze First it's weekends, then it's daily, then it's please Please just one more, I swear I'll stop tomorrow But tomorrow never comes, it's just more sorrow More shame, more lies, more hiding the truth From the ones who love you, from the ones who knew The you before the pipe, the you before the pain The you before you sold your soul for the flame [Hook – Sampled, scratched, repeated] "No one wakes up a junky" (scratch) "No one chooses the fall" (scratch) "No one wakes up a junky" (scratch) "But they wake up one day" (scratch) [Verse 2 – Still measured, slightly more intense] It starts with a script from the doctor, innocent and clean A little something for the anxiety, something for the dream That you used to have before the world turned cold Before the trauma took its hold Then the script runs out and you need more So you find a friend of a friend at the door And he's got what you need, just a little bit more And the price goes up but you can't keep score 'Cos the feeling is the only thing that makes sense In a world full of chaos and consequence So you lie, you steal, you cheat, you betray Everyone who ever tried to show you the way And you tell yourself it's fine, it's under control But the junky inside has already taken your soul [Hook – Sampled, scratched, repeated] "No one wakes up a junky" (scratch) "No one chooses the fall" (scratch) "No one wakes up a junky" (scratch) "But they wake up one day" (scratch) [Bridge – Stripped back, just bass and drums, spoken] I used to judge them. The ones on the street with the hollow eyes. I used to think they chose it. That they were weak. That I was different. Then I became one. And I realised the truth. No one chooses this. No one wants this. It just happens. And by the time you realise It's already got you. And the only way out Is to fight for your life. [Verse 3 – Still 90s flow, more emotional] So before you judge the man on the corner with the pipe Before you look away when you see him at night Remember he was someone's son, someone's friend Someone's father, someone's beginning and end He had dreams, he had hopes, he had a life to live But the darkness took it all and he had nothing left to give Except the shell of the man he used to be Before the junky set him free From the pain, from the fear, from the shame But the freedom is a prison and the prison is the same As the cage he was running from in the first place So he keeps on running, keeps on losing the race Against himself, against the clock, against the ghost Of the man he could have been, the man he misses most [Hook – Sampled, scratched, repeated] "No one wakes up a junky" (scratch) "No one chooses the fall" (scratch) "No one wakes up a junky" (scratch) "But they wake up one day" (scratch) [Verse 4 – Final verse, hopeful, still 90s flow] But there's another truth I gotta tell you too You can come back, you can make it through I was a junky but I'm not a junky now I put down the pipe, I took a vow To my kids, to my missus, to myself To put the poison back on the shelf And leave it there, no matter how hard it gets No matter how the craving hits, no matter how my body sweats I'm not the junky, I'm the man who survived I'm the man who fought and I'm the man who's alive So if you're out there and you're stuck in the game Remember you don't have to stay the same You can wake up one morning and choose to be free The junky can become the man you were meant to be
