Drinking Song
Divine Comedy Lyrics

Back at the house a bottle is found
A bottle of alcohol has been discovered at the house

And opened in honor
The bottle is opened as a sign of respect

Of those who have drowned
In memory of people who have died by drowning

While we who have not are stricken with guilt
Those who are alive feel guilty for drinking while others have died

And dutifully see
Making sure

That not one drop is spilled
Drinking every last bit of the alcohol

We're drinking to life we're drinking to death
Drinking to celebrate life and mourn death

We're drinking 'til none of our
Continuing to drink

Livers are left
Until our bodies can no longer handle the alcohol

We're wending our way down to the spirit store
Going to a store that sells alcohol

We'll drink till we just
We'll keep drinking

Can't drink anymore
Until we physically can't drink anymore

Raise your glasses high
Holding up your glass of alcohol

Drink the cellar dry
Drink all the alcohol from the storage area

Well, bloody my nose
Expressing surprise

And blacken my eye
Being in a fight

If it ain't some young Turk
If it isn't some young troublemaker

In search of a fight
Looking for a physical altercation

And chanticleer's chest
The rooster's chest

Is sagging with pride
Showing off confidence

For honor has yet
Because honor is

To be satisfied
Still needing to be resolved

Well, heaven be thanked
Thanking God

We live in an age
We exist in a period of time

When no man need bother
When no one needs to worry

Except on the stage
Except in a performance setting

With Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
With the idea that dying for one's country is glorious

And definitely not tonight
But not tonight

I can still remember
I can recall

When I was just a kid
When I was young

I was free to do what I wanted to
I had the freedom to do as I pleased

But I never, ever did
But I never took advantage of it

So now with years of discretion reached
And now that I'm older and wiser

May we not forget
Let's not forget

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
The French motto meaning freedom, equality, brotherhood

For there's life in the old world yet!
Because the world still has life in it

There'll always be an England
England will always exist

An Ireland and a France
Ireland and France will always exist

A Liechtenstein and Finland
Liechtenstein and Finland will always exist

And we have only one chance
And we only have one opportunity

Earnest young man with an unhealthy tan
A serious young man with a sunburn

Puts a drink in my hand and says I understand
He hands me a drink and says he knows how I feel

You're in search of the place
You're looking for a location

To continue the chase of the heavenly taste
To keep searching for the perfect drink

I suggest in that case you all come with me
He suggests that we all follow him

To my place by the sea where the glasses shall be
To his house by the ocean where there will be plenty of glasses

Overflowing with free alcoholic delights
Filled with an abundance of free alcoholic drinks

And free love if you like for what point has this life
And there's the possibility of free love because life is short

If you can't realize your dreams?
If you can't achieve your life's desires?

Oh, raise your glasses high
Hold up your glasses of alcohol

And drink the town dry
Drink all the alcohol in the town

We'll drink beyond
We'll continue to drink

The boundaries of sense
Past the limits of reason

We'll drink 'til we start to see
We'll keep drinking until we hallucinate

Lovely pink elephants
Beautiful pink elephants

Inside our heads, inside our beds
In our minds and in our dreams

Inside the threads of our pajama legs
Even on the fabric of our pajamas

So don't shoot til you see
Don't take action until you're sure

The reds of our eyes
The redness in our eyes from drinking

And an army of elephants
And the many imaginary pink elephants

Marching behind
Following close behind

From the day I was born
Since the day I was brought into the world

Till the night I will die
Until the evening that I pass away

All my lovers will be pink
All of my loves will be as imaginary as the pink elephants

And elephantine
And grande, enormous, gigantic