A Drinking Song Lyrics by Divine Comedy, The

A Drinking Song Lyrics

    Back at the house a bottle is found
    And opened in honour of those who have drowned
    While we who have not are stricken with guilt
    And dutifully see that not one drop is spilt

    We're drinking to life, we're drinking to death
    We're drinking 'till none of our livers are left
    We're winding our way down to the spirit store
    We'll drink 'till we just can't drink any more

    Raise your glasses high!
    Drink the cellar dry!

    Well bloody my nose and blacken my eye
    If it ain't some young punk in search of a fight
    And shaunticles' chest is sagging with pride
    For honour has yet to be satisfied

    Well heaven be thanked we live in an age
    Where no man need bother except on the stage
    With dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
    And definitely not tonight...

    I can still remember
    When i was just a kid
    I was free to do what i wanted to
    But never ever did
    And now with years of discretion reached may we not forget
    Liberte egalite fraternite
    For there's life in the old world yet

    There'll always be an england
    An ireland and our france
    A lichtenstein and finland
    For we have only one chance

    Then this young man with an unhealthy tan
    Puts a drink in my hand and says i understand
    You're in search of a place to continue the chase
    Of the heavenly taste i suggest in that case
    That you all come with me to my place by the sea
    Where the glasses shall be overflowing with free
    Alcoholic delights (and free love if you like)
    For what point has this life if you can't realise your dreams?

    Raise your glasses high!
    Drink the town dry!

    We'll drink beyond the boundaries of sense
    We'll drink 'till we start to see lovely pink elephants
    Inside our heads, inside our beds, inside ????
    So don't shoot 'till you see the reds of our eyes
    And an army of elephants marching behind
    From the night i was born 'till the day i will die
    All my lovers will be pink and elephantine!

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