NoMeansNo - Bitch's Brew lyrics

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Fog and night after a thirsty day

It was a hot sun beating on an empty plate, you know

That damn dog's barking at the hissing cars

I hear whispers from afar

What was that? what did you say? does what really matter anyway?

Dark eyes staring at the wall

Mascara crumbling beneath the fall of eyelids drooping down

Answer me! what did you say? why do you have to be this way?

"What way is that", was her reply

She smiled and raised her big brown eyes

She said, "i don't give a damn what you do

And I really don't care what happens to you

You can whistle in the dark if you remember the tune

And recite your litany of gloom and doom

But there is one thing you can do for me..."

She shifted her ass and spread her knees

She said, " I don't give a damn what you

Do just pour me a glass of that bitch's brew

No, I really don't care what happens to you do

I want a long cold glass of that bitch's brew"

The rain is coming down in sheets

Windshield's trickling jagged streaks

It's a scripture written on tinted glass

Hissing like a snake in the grass

Something hard lies on the seat

My lips move but I don't speak

My eyes are glued to that blinking sign

And I just sit there, biding my time

"Cheap rooms" it says "open all the time"

Handcuffs ring a tightened fist

Lipstick smears a bloodied lip

What's mine is mine, that's what

I know to have and hold, to keep control

That's all I know

That's all I know and I don't really care what happens next

This has nothing to do with sex

I just need something to see me through

Something to keep me from coming unglued

I don't know what I抣l do, wait,... I know what I抣l do

I know what I抣l do I抣l pop the cork on that bitch's brew

I抣l take a long stiff pull on that bitch's brew

I don't want no more I don't want no more

The bartender dragged me across the floor

Don't worry, man, that guy is long gone

"Maybe you shouldn't called him a fucking moron

You shouldn't start things you can't see through

Wow, that guy sure made a mess of you"

Now I lay me down to sleep and pray the lord my soul to keep

If I should die before I wake, you'll know I had a belly ache

"Shut up, man, shut up, man, you're brain is fried

Now don't stare at me with that look in your eyes"

What's mine is mine what's mine is mine

Said the frog to the snake as he crawled from the slime

My brain is fine, my brain, my brain, my brain is fine

How's that for a goddamned coupled rhyme

"Look man, why don't you just get on this stool

You ain't no poet, you're just a fucking fool"

I don't know what I抣l do I don't know what I抣l do

"Try doing what's right

Seek serenity in a world of delights

Till boom, boom, boom, out go the lights

Till boom, boom, boom, out go the lights"

Yea, that's going to help me to see me through

Like that's going to keep me from coming unglued

"Look man, I really don't give a fuck what you do

And I don't really care what happens to you

But there's maybe one little thing that I can do

I抣l pour you a shot of that bitch's brew

Yea, one quick belt of that bitch's brew

Then you've have to leave, we're closing

You know what they say

You don't have to go home

But you can't stay here"