Down Among The Wine And Spirits - Elvis Costello




Down among the wines and spirits

Where a man gets what he merits...

Once it was written in letters 'bout nine feet tall

Now he sees how far he's fallen

Since he set his mind on her completely



But then I guess that you couldn't have seen him lately

Walking around with a pain that just never ceases

He starts to speak and then he goes to pieces...

Down among the wines and spirits

Where a man gets what he merits...

Lives with the echoing words of their final quarrel

The vacant chamber

The empty barrel



But as he picks himself up from a sawdust floor

Clicks his fingers to that swinging door

Suddenly he's calling out, More, more, more...

I'm twice the foolish man I was before...

Down among the wines and spirits

Bubbles escaping from him at the rim a glass of grape

She sails through his memory just like a ship of shapely

And then as it started sink he drowns his sorrows

That fill his nights and empty tomorrows



But as he picks himself up from a sawdust floor

Clicks his fingers to that swinging door

Suddenly he's calling out, More, more, more...

Speaks of invisible things he hardly credits

Down among

Down among the wines and spirits



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