Every night
after work
Head to the High Street bar
Pick a fight
with some jerk
Wake up with a broken jaw
Enter nurse
healing hands
Deals with me with short shrift
It gets worse
Understand
I need to get back to my shift
Hate myself
a disgrace
Office stares at my bandaged head
On the shelf
see my face
In the mirror – I look half dead
But I just
don’t recall
The events of the night before
But I must
never fall
Into alcohol’s tempting lure
SOLO 1
Not again
I find me
Walking through the hospital door
I’m in pain
Cannot see
The product of a messy brawl
I wake up
In a bed
It’s not mine and the ceiling’s grey
Should get up
But instead
The doctor persuades me to stay
Says that I
May have caused
Permanent damage to my brain
Start to cry
World has paused
Look for someone to blame
Grab the nurse
By the throat
He don’t appreciate being abused
Makes things worse
Grab my coat
I’m more than a little confused
Remember
Out the door
It was very cold outside
December
On the floor
They found me clutching to my pride
Frozen tight
Drunken still
Heading for the off-licence
Stayed all night
Rather ill
Chatting to the statue, making no sense
Close to death
Still resist
I’m a dry man in denial
In my breath
Watch my fist
I’m not on that downward spiral
SOLO 2
Who has come
To my wake?
Pushed so many people away
I was dumb
A mistake
That was my final price to pay
Funny how
Now I’m dead
I have managed to stay sober
Too late now
I am dead
So now this nightmare is over
