Too Much Junkie Business

About Too Much Junkie Business

"Too Much Junkie Business" is a song written by Walter Lure of the New York punk band the Heartbreakers. Johnny Thunders sometimes introduced it as "written by Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Waldo (Lure)." The lyrics are a black-humored takeoff on Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business" (1956), about the complications of everyday life. Its melody is the New York Dolls' version of "Pills" by Bo Diddley. Thunders performed it often in his post-Heartbreakers career. Lure has said that he let Thunders take co-writing credit because "he liked it so much and he wished he'd wrote it". A Heartbreakers demo recorded for EMI appears on L. A. M. F.: The Lost '77 Mixes and live versions are included on many compilations. Walter Lure has performed it often with and without his band the Waldos. He and Billy Rath recorded a version in 1978 for Island Records which was never released. With Dee Dee Ramone's "Chinese Rocks," the song became a nostalgic anthem of sorts for punk-era and Thunders memorial concerts and tributes. more »

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2017

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Well you run down to the corner baby, see what you can cop 
You buy some for your sister and you take yours off the top 
Run into the bathroom, fixing up a shot 
Tie it up, shoot it up, bang your head and throw it up 

Too much junkie business 
Too much junkie business 
Too much junkie business 
I don't wanna f*ck around with you 

Your life becomes as sickening as that mess you call your face 
The pig you call your girlfriend is dead from shooting mace 
Climbing up the walls, you're shooting all my balls (/old moth balls?) 
Wrap it up, call it art, now your record makes the chart 

Too much junkie business 
Too much junkie business 
Too much junkie business 
I don't wanna f*ck around with you 

Too much junk, too much junk 
Too much junk, too much junk 
Too much junk, too much junk 
I don't wanna see her hanging out with you 

Well you're the coolest thing in town, with your face right on the ground 
Friends went through your pockets as the coffin went down 
You overdosed at last, spike stuck in your head 
Now you're deadâ?¦ dead! dead! dead! 

Too much junkie business 
Too much junkie business 
Too much junkie business 
I don't wanna f*ck around with you 

Too much junk, too much junk 
Too much junk, in your head

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Johnny Thunders

Johnny Thunders (July 15, 1952 – April 23, 1991), born John Anthony Genzale, Jr., was an American rock and roll/punk rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of the New York Dolls. He later played with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist. more »

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