Drink And Be Merry Lyrics - Arise - Amebix

Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die 

It's better to laugh than it is to cry 

My cup runneth over with blood and not wine 

The last was the flood, it's fire this time 

I took a walk on the beach, no sand dunes just oil 

Dead gulls and dead fish were trod underfoot 

The sky was tinted with yellow and black 

And the air smelt like Dachou today 

The fields were littered with the dying and dead 

Nothing grows here but decay! 

The village bell tolls, a priest vomits blood 

Another life's wasted away 

Down in the square, the party goes on 

The doomed sit down to their last feast 

They gorge themselves on the recently deceased 

The heat of the day, the foul smell of decay 

As they wait:. For the inferno to be 

UNLEASHED! 

So drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die 

It's better to laugh than it is to cry 

Live for life's sake, don't let life pass you by 

There's more worth living for than meets the eye 

So drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die!