Drinking In The Day Lyrics - Singles - The Tossers

Well I met her up on Leeson Street of a Tuesday afternoon 

In Summer's fallen colours, sulking back to school 

I asked her would she linger, and she asked me would she stay 

Would she keep a girl in company, drinking in the day? 

Drinking, Drinking 

Drinking... not thinking 

Drinking, Drinking 

We'll go drinking in the day 

She was almost a woman, she was going on sixteen 

She asked me to go walking, In Saint Stephen's Green 

She said I love the sunshine, and to hear the children play. 

But I won't be distracted when I'm drinking in the day. 

With her flashing eyes and milk white lies she looked like a song 

Like the ghost of a woman that first made me go wrong 

She said I'll have a drink with you but I said you'll have to pay 

For a comprehensive education 

Drinking in the day 

Drinking, Drinking 

Drinking and not thinking 

Drinking, Drinking 

We'll go drinking in the day 

If her mother could have seen us on that bright November day 

Botticelli and his angel perambulating Ormand Quay 

A drunken blessed virgin, me rhetorious and gay 

Bestowing ancient wisdom as to what made me this way 

Well here it is: 

Deny your friends and family 

To serve you must betray 

Break and enter heaven 

Well you'll steal but never save 

Well you'll squander every penny 

And you'll empty every heart 

And you'll travel every darkened road 

You'll never finish what you start 

And you'll always talk to strangers 

And make love with whom you may 

For God will find good company 

For your drinking in the day 

Drinking, drinking 

Drinking and not thinking 

Drinking, drinking 

We'll go drinking in the day 

So spend your youth on poetry, and spend your cash at play 

Every line upon my face is for a girl who went away 

A kiss, and a song, are fleeting things and fame will always stray 

So I'll tell the truth, the best spent youth, is the one you throw away 

Drinking, drinking 

Drinking... not thinking 

Drinking, drinking 

We'll go drinking in the day 

Drinking, drinking 

Drinking... not thinking 

Drinking, drinking 

We'll go drinking in the day 

Drinking, drinking 

Drinking... not thinking 

Drinking, drinking 

We'll go drinking in the day 

Drinking, drinking 

Drinking... not thinking 

Drinking, drinking 

We'll go drinking in the day 

Drinking, drinking 

Drinking... not thinking 

Drinking, drinking 

We'll go drinking in the day 

Drinking, drinking 

Drinking... not thinking 

Drinking...