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I drink to drive away all the years I have hatedThe ambitions frustrated that no longer surviveI drink day after day to the chaos behind meYes, I drink to remind me that I still am aliveSo I give you a toast to the endless confusionsTo the lies and delusions that have swallowed my lifeYes I give you a toast to the wine and the rosesTo the deadly cirrhosis that can cut like a knifeI drink to catch a glimpse of the love we degradedOf a life that has faded like the vanishing moonI drink as in a dream to my waiting desire,To the passionate fire that has burned out so soon.I drink and I drown in a promise you made meAll the times you betrayed me in your anger and spiteWhen you took on the town, and when you looked for the actionWhen you took satisfaction like a whore in the nightI drink to make believe that my life is worth livingThat the Gods are forgiving at the end of the day.I drink because I grieve for the dreams when we startedFor the innocent hearted who got lost on the way.For the children unborn, for their dead phantom facesSongtextefor our sterile embraces in the tomb of your bedI drink and I mourn for the harvest that failedfor the ship that has sailed, and the hope that is deadI drink to find the place where the darkness can hide meUntil the terror inside me can at last disappearI drink to my disgrace till oblivion claims meUntil there's nothing that shames me, till I'm blind to my fearYes I drink till I burst, till my own degradationUntil the edge of damnation that is waiting belowYes I drink with a thirst that destroys and depraves meEngulfs and enslaves me and will never let goI drink until I'm lost and the street is my hideoutWhere I will beat my pride out till I'm gasping for breathI drink to count the cost of a life I despair forUntil God hears my prayer for a compassionate deathSo I spit up my bile at the Gods who demean usAt the silence between us, at the love none can saveFor a life that is vile, for a soul that is ailingFor a body that's failing as it heads for the graveI drink without a care, drink because I mustDrink for my despair, I drink to your disgustI drink, drink, drink, by God I drinkYes, I drink Aus Songtexte Mania