Drinking as Religion - Mason Jennings


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After all this useless fighting, after all our schemes
We could sense a final battle, and started picking teams
Due to lack of good direction, I fell in with thieves
Took to drinking as religion and landed on my knees

Truth it starts as understanding and finds you in the night
And circles all around the ceiling a frightened bird in flight
After spending hours beneath it everything 'comes clear
Truth will pose no danger to you what haunts you both is fear

Somewhere in our ever after telephones still ring
Somewhere in our future journal, love still means something
I have learned a mighty lesson from this change of plan
Loss is brutal, I can't stand it, I wonder how you can

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And all the while, there's dogs a-barking, streets are talking, out my window
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Out the light and the snow is flaking, hearts are breaking, words are making
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a mess out of these, thoughts I'm thinking, boats keep sinking,
it's drown or keep drinking


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And if this darkness came from light, then light can come from darkness, I guess
And if this darkness came from light, then light can come from darkness, I guess