Battling The Bottle-Jim Bob

[ti:Battling The Bottle] [ar:Jim Bob] [al:Battling The Bottle] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Battling The Bottle - Jim Bob [00:12.77]Battling the bottle fighting the flab [00:14.72]At war with the world [00:17.81]Battling the bottle fighting the flab [00:20.28]At war with the world [00:23.31]Everybody ran when they heard the sound [00:25.89]Of handgun fire in the centre of town [00:28.53]I didn't know her name but I knew the face [00:30.96]Of the sports personality who started the race [00:33.43]I was a long way away from my personal best [00:35.50] [00:36.33]With scotch on my breath and the front of my vest [00:39.21]And now my wife's left and she's taken the kids [00:41.67]I really know what long-distance loneliness is [00:46.00]Battling the bottle fighting the flab [00:48.30]At war with the world [00:51.22]Battling the bottle fighting the flab [00:53.48]At war with the world [00:56.25]This is the closest thing I've ever come to being a tourist [00:58.96]In forty years of living here I never got around to it [01:01.88]I've never seen the curve of the Admiralty Arch [01:04.29]Or the sailors who served on the Cutty Sark [01:07.04]Ten miles in and I'm feeling the pain [01:09.90]A jazz band's playing and it's starting to rain [01:12.54]The bunions and blisters are like stones in my shoes [01:15.01]And I've already spent the sponsor money on booze [01:18.69] [01:19.22]Battling the bottle fighting the flab [01:21.67]At war with the world [01:24.62]Battling the bottle fighting the flab [01:26.85]At war with the world [01:30.85] [01:52.08]After two hours fifty-nine I hit the wall [01:57.26]My six month's training meant nothing at all [02:02.48]Beached like a whale with my gut in my hands [02:07.03]I tried and I failed as a marathon man [02:11.88]In less than a week I'd be putting away [02:16.79]What shadow would be there i'm not serious skate [02:21.47]My get-up-and-go will got up and gone [02:25.90]And I'd be back down low where I started from [02:31.81]Battling the bottle fighting the flab [02:36.74] [02:48.41]At war with the world