When I Drink Lyrics
I say things I don't want to say
I do things I don't wanna do
I talk mean to you
But if I think
I just might get something out of this
My parents taught me to learn when I miss
Just do your best
Just do your best
Maybe I don't have to be good but I can try to be
At least a little better than I've been so far
I hear things that aren't really there
I feel things when I shouldn't really care
Have fist fights with the air
But if I think about someone besides myself
I lived through the silver and the bell
With something to tell
Just do your best
Maybe I don't have to be good but I can try to be
At least a little better than I've been so far
I spend the next morning in a haze
But we only get so many days
Now I have one less
Just do your best
Maybe I don't have to be good but I can try to be
At least a little better than I've been so far
Oh, at least a little better than I've been so far
sippin on whiskey in the dark when your all alone this is the greatest drinking song ever!
I agree 100 Percent!!
I agree 100 Percent!!
I think this song has a much deeper meaning. It might sound like a fun drinking game, but I think the artist is trying to make something hopeful out of a bad circumstance--alcoholism.
He loses fists fights with the air, is mean, rude, and wakes up in a haze.
"I've been through the silver and the bells": I believe means he's been to AA meetings. Silver coins for sobriety (30/60/90 days, etc.) and bells, as many AA meetings are held in church basements, and churches have bells that go off every hour.
I think he's rejecting AA's ideas, because he said "he's lived through it", which implies a negative experience with it.
"Just do your best": No one is perfect, but do a little better, every day, for your own sanity.
This is certainly not a "happy" song-- he becomes delusional, emotional, and angry, fill of regrets. I think he's trying to make the best out of a crappy situation, with humour (the "I hear things that aren't really there-- la la la").
But he IS making the best of the situation: Have humour and do your best.
Crackerfarm posted a video of Seth visiting the Martin Guitar factory back in March and in it, he talks about his solo record, The Mourning, The Silver, The Bell; he says that the mourning is the realization that something tragic has happened, the silver is something flashy that catches your eye - something you mistakenly interpret as a tool to overcome the mourning, and the bell represents clarity. It was cool to see him discuss it aloud, as I'd been wondering about the phrase ever since I heard it.
Straight up. You don't have to be perfect. Just be the best you can.
Even though the world is messed up, there is always a glimmer of hope.