Down Among The Wines And Spirits Lyrics - Secret, Profane And Sugarcane - Elvis Costello

Down among the wines and spirits 

Where a man gets what he merits 

Once he was written in letters of nine feet tall 

Now he finds how far he's fallen 

Since he set his mind on her completely 

Oh well, I guess that you mustn't have seen him lately 

Walking around with a pain that never ceases 

He starts to speak and then he falls 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 and the empty barrel 

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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 from the rim of a glass of grape 

She sails through his memory just like a ship of chaplet 

As it started to sink, he was drinking to drown his sorrows 

That fill his nights and they empty his tomorrows 

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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 

Down among the wines and spirits