If you have a feeling you drink too much, you can either conceal your habit or just casually admit it like Mary Gauthier does here on "I Drink".... no big deal. Actually, the song has an autobiographic aspect to it. She was an alcoholic from her mid teens and this song was written after she quit drinking at the age of 29. She later said that she could not have written "I Drink" if she hadn't been addicted. One of the greatest drinking songs ever written.
Lyrics - "I Drink"
He’d get home at 5:30, fix his drink
And sit down in his chair
Pick a fight with mama
Complain about us kids getting in his hair
At night he’d sit alone and smoke
I’d see his frown behind his lighter’s flame
Now that same frown’s in my mirror
I got my daddy’s blood inside my veins
Fish swim birds fly
Daddies yell mamas cry
Old men sit and think
I drink
Chicken TV dinner
6 minutes on defrost, 3 on high
A beer to wash it down with
Then another, a little whiskey on the side
It’s not so bad alone here
It don’t bother me that every night’s the same
I don’t need another lover
Hanging round, trying to make me change
Fish swim birds fly
Lovers leave by and by
Old men sit and think
I drink
I know what I am
But I don’t give a damn
Fish swim birds fly
Daddies yell mamas cry
Old men sit and think
I drink
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