First You Take The Drink, Then The Drink Takes The Man

First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man

He's on a bender
He can't remember
He can't remember what he did last night

Woke up with someone
A perfect stranger
All he knows is that it's not his wife
No Karma Sutra
Or Guantanomera
Gone Kamikaze
In the heat of the night
Call him a doctor
Bleeding mascara
His fists were broken in a helluva fight

First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man

Enter the dragon
He's back in rehab
Don't tell his friends that he fucked up again
Go through the motions
Get with the program
Sneak in another and he's at it again
Tequila sunrise
And blinding migraines
Unhappy world and an unhappy girl
The rocking nightmares
And rolling blackouts
Spilt the wine and he'll dig that pearl

First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man
First you take the drink, then the drink
Takes the man
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man

And you keep reaching for that empty glass
(That empty glass)
Can't seem to come to grips with your sordid past
(Ah-ha)
And something always seems to drag you down
(Drag you down)
He's all alone again with his friends around
(Friends fizzle out)
The pressure starts mount on
Debt and demands
Well, first you take the drink
And the drink takes the man

He's on a bender (again?)
He can't remember (oh, no way!)
He can't remember
If he's unstuck in time
Like Billy Pilgrim
But down on Cahuenga
No Malaguena
Can't get with the times
He's treading water
And turning cartwheels
Chasing Chimeras
Windmills in his mind
He's feeling seasick
From guilty pleasures
Show me the man
And I'll find you the crime

First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man (yeah!)
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man (yeah!l
First you take the drink, then the drink
Takes the man (yeah!)
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man (yeah!)

Back in the gutter
Pour him another
He's not your brother
Broke the ties that bind
He's not your hero
He's not your Savior
He's just a man that got sick and tired
He's getting hammered
Wasted and plastered
Nothing else matters
To persons unknown
No Karma Sutra
Or Gauntanomera
Gone Kamikaze
In the heat of the night

First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man (yeah!)
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man (yeah!)
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man (yeah!)
First you take the drink, then the drink takes the man (yeah!)