by Jade Steven
So when I was living in Lakewood, CO and I was beginning to write what would end up being Burnt Toast Cosmonaut’s self-titled album. I was getting a lot of my first shows in Colorado even though they were just acoustic gigs I was taking a lot of pride in what I was I doing. At this time I was working at this nursing home because at the time I was a CNA, which in and of itself was incredibly rewarding. But any who one day this just super cute mousy girl Shelbe started working with us.
She was a cool chick seemed to like a lot of cool shit, but through our conversations I learned, she was homeless, ( I suspected there was more to it ) but here and her boyfriend were living in their Subaru Outback. So I invited them over so they could do laundry and shower and the such.
And everything was going smoothly but then one day she came over just crying her eyes out; she said that her boyfriend went back to using heroin again and she didn’t want to be involved with him. So I let her stay, we watched Wizard of Oz, we got pretty close.
Then one day her boyfriend came over banging on my door and you know I assumed I was either gonna have to kick his ass or call the cops, I answered the door he was crying saying I stole his shampoo and body wash. Shelbe came to the door said she handle it, she walked out with him to his car, and I never saw her again.
It was the weirdest thing. So I wrote the whole song about it called Two Junkies; it’s on our new album.
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