I Drink

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I Drink by Mary Gauthier

About I Drink

According to the I Drink Songfacts, Mary Gauthier was given up by her birth mother and adopted by a couple from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she grew up. It was a tumultuous household, and her adoptive father was an alcoholic. In this song, she describes a typical night at home, with her father drinking and her mother crying. LIFE IS NOW passion, compassion, a rainbow while still raining .

I Drink Lyrics

[00:09.20] He'd get home at 5-30, fix his drink
[00:14.10] Sit down in his chair
[00:19.21] Pick a fight with mama
[00:23.12] Complain about us kids getting in his hair
[00:31.12] At night he'd sit alone and smoke
[00:34.20] I'd see his frown behind his lighter's flame
[00:41.39] Now that same frown's in my mirror
[00:44.36] I got my daddy's blood inside my veins
[00:52.36] Fish swim
[00:55.24] Birds fly
[00:59.31] Daddies yell
[01:02.37] Mamas cry
[01:06.41] Old men
[01:09.42] Sit and think
[01:14.44] I drink
[01:18.45]
[01:36.54] Chicken, TV, dinner
[01:41.51] Six minutes on defrost, three on high
[01:47.55] Beer to wash it down with
[01:51.58] Then another, a little whiskey on the side
[01:58.53] It's not so bad alone here
[02:02.66] It don't bother me that every night's the same
[02:09.65] I don't need another lover
[02:13.69] Hanging 'round, trying to make me change
[02:20.72] Fish swim
[02:23.76] Birds fly
[02:27.77] Lovers leave
[02:30.75] By and by
[02:34.76] Old men
[02:38.80] Sit and think
[02:44.87] I drink
[02:50.93] I know what I am
[02:57.90] But I don't give a damn
[03:08.97] Fish swim
[03:12.05] Birds fly
[03:16.02] Daddies yell
[03:20.00] Mamas cry
[03:23.05] Old men
[03:27.01] Sit and think
[03:32.97] I drink
[03:42.01]

From the album: Cool as Folk