I Drink

He'd get home about 5:30

Fix a drink and sit down in his chair

Pick a fight with mama

Complain about us kids gettin' in his hair

At night he'd sit alone and smoke

I'd see his frown behind the lighter's flame

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

You got your chicken TV dinner

Six minutes on defrost, three on high

A beer to wash it down with

Then another 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

Hangin' around, tryin' 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

I don't give a damn

Fish swim, birds fly

Daddies yell, mamas cry

Old men sit and think

I drink