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Drinking Whiskey - Remastered

from DOWNLOAD - Love Everybody (Remastered) by Bigdumbhick

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It was in December and I was up in the Cincinnati area for work. We were shutting down a plant that the huge corporation I work for had recently acquired. I was feeling a little down, knowing that we were putting a bunch of people out of work. Merry Christmas fuckers, you’re all fired. As we’re rolling down the street between the hotel and the plant, it’s just before dawn and I’m looking out the window and I’m watching the shift change between the Night people and the Day People. The remnants of the Night People are standing on the corner doing what people standing on the corner are usually doing. I saw a girl who looked as if she had just spent a long night on her feet, and her knees and was headed back to where she called home . A drunk was shuffling off to wherever it is that homeless drunk people shuffle off to when the sun comes up. None of my co-workers noticed any of this. They are all Day people and have never been Night people. It gets damned cold in Cincinnati at Christmas. I remember thinking to myself, ”If I were living on the streets, why in the hell would I ever stay in Cincinnati for the winter”? I guess people do it because its home…or the closest thing that some folks have ever had to a home…even though their chili tastes like ass.

I started imagining what I would do if I was one of those people. How did I get there? Why am I still there? Then this song came out.

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Drinking Whiskey
(Jeff Wall)

Lost here in a strange town, sleeping on the street
I’ve had too much to drink again and not enough to eat
I’ve been drinking whisky trying to forget
I’m trying to drown a memory but it ain’t happened yet

I wake up every morning with the voices in my head
Saying it’s a pity that I didn’t wake up dead
But death is not an option to free me from my curse
Living with my guilt and shame that hurts a whole lot worse
And I’ve been drinking whisky trying to forget
I’m trying to drown a memory but it ain’t happened yet

The Lord he would forgive me, and you’d forgive me too
but then I’d have to forgive myself and that’s something I can’t do
I belong in Prison, I’ve got to do my time.
I’ve got to serve my sentence, locked up in my mind
And I’ve been drinking whisky trying to forget
I’m trying to drown a memory but it ain’t happened yet

Lost here in a strange town, sleeping on the street
I’ve had too much to drink again and not enough to eat
I’ve been drinking whisky trying to forget
I’m trying to drown a memory but it ain’t happened yet
I’m trying to drown a memory but it ain’t happened yet

©2016 Bigdumbhick Music

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from DOWNLOAD - Love Everybody (Remastered), released December 18, 2022
Jeff Wall - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Lee Terry – Everything Else

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Jeff Wall Kernersville, North Carolina

Acoustic Hillbilly, Honky-Tonk, Bluegrass Music with heart, soul, and God's honest truth. He'll make you laugh, he'll make you cry, he'll make you tap your foot.

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