Sublime Songs - Pool Shark Lyrics

Sublime - Pool Shark

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Album: Robbin' The Hood
Released: 1994

Pool Shark Lyrics

They say in this song Brad predicts his own death from Heroin

Lying in my plastic bed,
Thinkin' how things were so cool to me
My baby likes to shoot pool
I like lying naked in my bedroom

Tying on the dinosaur
Tonight it used to be so cool

Now I've got the needle
And I can't bleed, but I can't breathe.
Take it away and I want more and more
One day I'm gonna lose the war

Lying in my plastic bed
Thinkin' how things were so cool to me
My baby likes to shoot pool
I like lying naked in my bedroom

Tying on the dinosaur
Tonight it used to be so cool

Now I've got the needle
And I can't shake
But I can't breathe

Take it away and but I want more and more
One day I'm gonna lose the war

Writer/s: ELAM, KEITH/SUBLIME /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Pool Shark

This is widely known as singer Bradley Nowell's "suicide note." It talks of his struggle with heroin, and how "One day (he's) gonna lose the war." Nowell died of a heroin overdose in 1996. (thanks, Jules - W Bloomfield, MI)

While this song does make specific references to heroin ("Now I've got the needle, and I can shake"), Nowell wrote it about a specific girl. In our interview with Sublime bass player Eric Wilson , he explained that the "Pool Shark" was his girlfriend at the time. "She was really good at pool - it turns out she was hanging out with some guys and she got good at pool," he said. "They broke up shortly after that, but that's what he wrote that about."