Alcohol

Album: Time Well Wasted (2005)
Charted: 28
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  • I can make anybody pretty
    I can make you believe any lie
    I can make you pick a fight
    With somebody twice your size

    Well I've been known to cause a few breakups
    And I've been known to cause a few births
    I can make you new friends
    Or get you fired from work

    And since the day I left Milwaukee
    Lynchburg and Bordeaux, France
    Been making the bars lots of big money
    And helping white people dance
    I got you in trouble in high school
    But college, now that was a ball
    You had some of the best times
    You'll never remember with me
    Alcohol, alcohol

    I got blamed at your wedding reception
    For your best man's embarrassing speech
    And also for those naked pictures of you at the beach
    I've influenced kings and world leaders
    I helped Hemingway write like he did
    And I'll bet you a drink or two that I can make you
    Put that lampshade on your head

    'Cause since the day I left Milwaukee
    Lynchburg and Bordeaux, France
    Been making a fool out of folks just like you
    And helping white people dance
    I am medicine and I am poison
    I can help you up or make you fall
    You had some of the best times
    You'll never remember with me
    Alcohol, alcohol

    Yeah, since the day I left Milwaukee
    Lynchburg and Bordeaux, France
    Been making the bars lots of big money
    (And helping white people dance)
    Yeah, I got you in trouble in high school
    But college, now that was a ball
    You had some of the best times
    You'll never remember with me
    Alcohol, alcohol Writer/s: Brad Paisley
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Spirit Music Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Travis from Iowait's not a one-word chorus its chorus is as follows:

    And since the day I left Milwaukee
    Lynchburg Bordeaux, France
    Been making the bars
    With lots of big money
    And helping white people dance
    I got you in trouble in high school
    And college now that was a ball
    You had some of the best times
    You'll never remember with me
    Alcohol, alcohol


    if it was one word it'd be

    Alcohol Alcohol Alcohol
    Alcohol Alcohol Alcohol
    Alcohol Alcohol Alcohol
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