Drinking In The Day-The Tossers

[ti:Drinking In The Day] [ar:The Tossers] [al:The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Drinking In The Day - The Tossers [02:21.51]Well I met her up on Leeson Street of a Tuesday afternoon [02:27.97] [02:29.00]In summer's fallen colors sulking back to school [02:35.34] [02:36.40]I asked her would she linger and she asked me would she stay [02:42.98] [02:43.92]Would she keep a girl in company drinking in the day [02:50.43] [02:51.71]Drinking drinking [02:54.90] [02:55.44]Drinking not thinking [02:58.44] [02:59.16]Drinking drinking [03:02.43]We'll go drinking in the day [03:05.44] [03:06.31]She was almost a woman she was going on sixteen [03:12.77] [03:13.64]She asked me to go walking in saint Stephen's green [03:20.13] [03:21.08]She said I love the sunshine and to hear the children play [03:27.63] [03:28.59]But I won't be distracted when I'm drinking in the day [03:34.90] [03:35.71]With her flashing eyes and milk white lies she looked like a song [03:42.28] [03:43.22]Like the ghost of a woman that first made me go wrong [03:49.55] [03:50.53]She said I'll have a drink with you but I said you'll have to pay [03:57.16] [03:57.87]For a comprehensive education [04:02.02]Drinking in the day [04:04.55] [04:05.60]Drinking drinking [04:08.60] [04:09.16]Drinking and not thinking [04:12.18] [04:12.89]Drinking drinking [04:16.16]We'll go drinking in the day [04:19.01] [04:20.13]If her mother could have seen us on that bright November day [04:26.46] [04:27.14]Botticelli and his angel perambulating Ormond quay [04:33.95] [04:34.51]A drunken blessed virgin me rhetorious and gay [04:41.38] [04:42.22]Bestowing ancient wisdom as to what made me this way [04:48.48]Well here it is [04:49.54]Deny your friends and family [04:52.51] [04:53.18]To serve you must betray [04:55.98] [04:57.13]Break and enter heaven [04:59.71] [05:00.36]Well you'll steal but never save [05:03.31] [05:04.22]Well you'll squander every penny [05:07.01] [05:07.65]And you'll empty every heart [05:10.55] [05:11.56]And you'll travel every darkened road [05:15.36]You'll never finish what you start [05:17.93] [05:18.96]And you'll always talk to strangers [05:22.09] [05:22.62]And make love with whom you may [05:26.26]For god will find good company [05:29.98]For your drinking in the day [05:33.06] [05:34.14]Drinking drinking [05:37.03] [05:37.60]Drinking and not thinking [05:40.56] [05:41.19]Drinking drinking [05:44.57]We'll go drinking in the day [05:47.31] [05:48.20]So spend your youth on poetry and spend your cash at play [05:54.77] [05:55.46]Every line upon my face is for a girl who went away [06:02.18] [06:03.01]A kiss and a song are fleeting things and fame will always stray [06:09.59] [06:10.34]So I'll tell the truth the best spent youth [06:14.09]Is the one you throw away [06:16.86] [06:18.03]Drinking drinking [06:21.03] [06:21.65]Drinking not thinking [06:24.69] [06:25.30]Drinking drinking [06:28.66]We'll go drinking in the day [06:31.68] [06:32.58]Drinking drinking [06:35.66] [06:36.18]Drinking not thinking [06:39.91]Drinking drinking [06:43.21]We'll go drinking in the day