You think you're chasing addiction,

When really addiction has you in a hold all on its own.

The people around you suffer,

just as much as you suffer.

That's how addiction wins.

You left a country because it reigns terror and a murky future.

But you didn't know that instilling those same values means you never left.

Addiction has you in its clutch all this time but you didn't know it.  Still don't. 

Addiction sought blood and it found it.  You birthed and bred for it.
You nurtured it to blossom it's withered petals.

Blackened and diseased.

But still it grows.