I Drink Cifras

[Verse 1]
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I drink to drive away all the years I have hated
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The ambitions frustrated that no longer survive
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I drink day after day to the chaos behind me
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As I drink to remind me that I still am alive
 
[Chorus 1]
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So I give you a toast to the endless confusions
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To the lies and delusions that have swallowed my life
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Yes I give you a toast to the wine and the roses
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To the deadly cirrhosis that can cut like a knife
 
[Verse 2]
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I drink to catch a gleam of the love we degraded
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Of a life that has faded like a vanishing moon
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I drink, as in a dream, to my waning desire
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To the passionate fire that has burned out too soon
 
[Chorus 2]
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I drink and I drown in a promise you made me
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All the times you betrayed me in your anger and spite
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When you took to the town and when you looked for the action
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When you took satisfaction like a whore in the night
 
 
[Verse 3]
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I drink to make believe that my life is worth living
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That the Gods are forgiving at the end of the day
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I drink because I grieve for the dreams when we started
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For the innocent hearted who got lost on the way
 
 
[Chorus 3]
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For the children unborn and their dead phantom faces
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For our sterile embraces in the tomb of your bed
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I drink and I mourn for the harvest that failed
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For the ship that has sailed and the hope that is dead
 
 
[Verse 4]
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I drink to find the place where the darkness can hide me
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Till the terror inside me can at last disappear
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I drink to my disgrace until oblivion claims me
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Till there's nothing that shames me, till I'm blind to my fear
 
[Chorus 4]
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Yes I drink till I burst in my own degradation
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Till the edge of damnation that is waiting below
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Yes I drink with a thirst that destroys and depraves me
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Engulfs and enslaves me and will never let go
 
[Verse 5]
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I drink until I'm lost and the street is my hideout
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Where I hope and I cry out until I'm gasping for breath
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I drink to count the cost of a life I despair for
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Until God hears my prayer for the compassion of death
 
 
[Chorus 5]
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So I spit out my bile at the Gods who demean us
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At the silence between us, at the love none can save
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For a life that is vile, for a soul that is ailing
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For a body that's failing as it heads for the grave
 
[Coda]
    Am
I drink without a care
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I drink because I must
   Bm
I drink to my despair
   Cm
I drink to your disgust
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I drink, drink, drink, my God I drink
 
Yes I drink
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