Tankard Lyrics

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Barfly Lyrics

D.T. empty stare and body shiver

 Whisky - need a shot to stop the quiver

 I've been here for days or minutes

 Where is here? I couldn't tell

 Somewhere in the outer limits

 Pretty close, I guess, to Hell

 Hazy names and places

 Foggy memory

 Help me - Mister, can you spare a dollar?

 Need a drink before I start to holler

 Seedy bars is where I hang out

 Crawling up the Strip all night

 Dodging tabs and seeking spenders

 Passing out or starting fights

 It's a way of living

 In the underworld

 

 Close to the edge - Barfly

 Ready to fall

 Walking the ledge - Barfly

 Nothing or all

 Playing your part - Barfly

 Searching... Barfly

 

 Barrooms - stench of beer, the smell of losers

 Lowlifes - aging whores and senile boozers

 We're a family of zombies

 But a family nonetheless

 Gotta hang on to each other

 When your life's a filthy mess

 Fighting for survival

 Fighting loneliness

 

 Way out - got a choice, I'm not a dumb one

 Create - write a book and be a someone

 Memoirs very popular

 In those intellectual circles

 Barfly turns to cult - scene start

 Sleaze can be attractive

 Viewed from safer shores

 

 Close to the edge - Barfly

 Ready to fall

 Nothing or all - Barfly

 Searching... Barfly