Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now

I Drink

He'd get home at 5-30, fix his drink
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
Six minutes on defrost, three on high
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



Credits
Writer(s): Crit Andrew Harmon, Mary Veronica Gauthier
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Falling Out Of Love
  2. Mercy Now
  3. Wheel Inside The Wheel
  4. I Drink
  5. Just Say She's A Rhymer
  6. Prayer Without Words
  7. Your Sister Cried
  8. Empty Spaces
  9. Drop In A Bucket
  10. It Ain't The Wind, It's The Rain

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Altri album

  1. After a Night of Heavy Rain
  2. Today
  3. Dark Enough to See the Stars
  4. Dark Enough to See the Stars
  5. Fall Apart World
  6. Amsterdam
  7. Women Across the River
  8. Truckers and Troubadours
  9. Rifles & Rosary Beads
  10. Rifles and Rosary Beads

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