Lyrics A Drinking Song.lrc The Divine Comedy
[id: dehywvut]
[ar: The Divine Comedy]
[al: Promenade]
[ti: A Drinking Song]
[length: 04:38]
[00:18.31]Back at the house
[00:20.11]A bottle is found
[00:21.98]And opened in honour of those who have drowned,
[00:26.40]While we who have not are stricken with guilt
[00:30.05]And dutifully see that not one drop is spilt;
[00:34.65]We’re drinking to life,
[00:36.46]We’re drinking to death –
[00:38.25]We’re drinking ’til none of our livers are left!
[00:41.88]We’re wending our way down to the spirit store,
[00:46.32]We’ll drink ’til we just can’t drink anymore!
[00:53.52]Raise your glasses high,
[01:01.73]Drink the cellar dry!
[01:13.49]Well, bloody my nose
[01:15.23]And blacken my eye!
[01:17.00]If it ain’t some young Turk in search of a fight –
[01:21.53]And Chanticleer’s chest is sagging with pride,
[01:25.23]For honour has yet to be satisfied.
[01:28.88]Well, heaven be thanked
[01:30.67]We live in an age
[01:33.35]When no man need bother
[01:35.19](Except on the stage)
[01:36.93]With ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori’ –
[01:41.47]And definitely not tonight!
[01:46.06]I can still remember
[01:47.85]When I was just a kid –
[01:52.33]I was free to do what I wanted to,
[01:55.05]But I never, ever did…
[01:59.54]So now with years of discretion reached,
[02:03.10]May we not forget
[02:06.86]Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
[02:11.37]For there’s life in the old world yet!
[02:14.91]There’ll always be an England (oh yes there will),
[02:23.08]An Ireland and a France (indubitably),
[02:30.25]A Liechtenstein and Finland (absolutely right, completely undeniable),
[02:39.31]And we have only one chance…
[02:47.43]Earnest young man with an unhealthy tan
[02:51.01]Puts a drink in my hand and says:
[02:53.77]”I understand
[02:55.59]You’re in search of the place
[02:57.39]To continue the chase
[02:59.19]Of the heavenly taste?
[03:01.02]I suggest in that case
[03:02.83]You all come with me
[03:05.58]To my place by the sea
[03:07.35]Where the glasses shall be overflowing with free
[03:10.94]Alcoholic delights –
[03:12.70]And free love if you like –
[03:15.49]For what point has this life
[03:17.32]If you can’t realise you’re dreams?!”
[03:22.78]Oh, raise your glasses high,
[03:30.85]And drink the town dry!
[03:36.22]We’ll drink beyond the boundaries of sense!
[03:38.91]We’ll drink ’til we start to see lovely pink elephants
[03:43.52]Inside our heads, inside our beds –
[03:47.19]Inside the threads of our pyjama legs –
[03:50.77]So don’t shoot til you see the reds of our eyes
[03:55.25]And an army of elephants marching behind!
[03:58.84]>From the day I was born ’til the night I will die
[04:04.31]All my lovers will be pink and elephantine!
[04:25.06]Year of Release: 1994