How do sober people meet?

This feels impossible without a drink

Asking for water in a darkened bar

(Nourishing my poor parched heart)

My liver loves me but my lovers leave me

Another lonely year might kill me

Party girl left me for a party boy

(He's a little more her speed)

You need single malt courage to feel normal again

Just to say ‘hi’ to lifelong friends

(Ahhhh)

I've forgotten how to converse

I'm a stuttering wreck with nothing to say

It’s hard to hear from your old friends

("We liked you better when you drank")

Words are tripping over my tongue

I'm just mumbling lines in a marbled mouth

I'm making myself uncomfortable

(Simple human pleasures you will never figure out)

(Ahhhhhh)

I can't dance, I just stumble rhythmically

My balance is terrible but I'm not drunk, just dizzy

All my friends think I've fallen off again

But the music is so loud it helps me to forget

The ice is melting in my glass

A promise held tight in my cold hands

Exile myself to a corner in the back

(Anxiety is eating me)

I used to make fun of addicts

Until I realized I need

Alcohol! Nicotine! Caffeine! Dopamine!

Just to get through a basic week

(Ahhhhhh)

My heart is torn between depressants and stimulants

It might give out before the band finishes their set

But ‘til then

I can't dance, I just stumble rhythmically

My balance is terrible but I'm not drunk, just dizzy

All my friends think I’ve fallen off again

But the music is so loud it helps me to forget

That I can’t dance and someday we're all gonna die

So this gesture is useless but goddamn it I’m gonna try

And life is a fight to the death, you'll never win but keep on swinging

Smile defiantly at the abyss and it'll feel something like bliss

Go!