When I Drink

When I Drink - The Avett Brothers

When I drink

I say things I don't

Wanna say

I do things I don't

Wanna do

I talk mean to you

But if I think

I just might get something

Out of this

My parents taught me to learn

When I miss

Just do your best

Just do your best

It's the only way to keep that last bit of sanity

Maybe I don't have to be

Good but I can try to be

At least a little better than I've been so far

But when I drink

I hear things that aren't

Really there

Feel things when I shouldn't

Really care

Have fist fights

With the air

But if I think

About someone besides myself

I lived

Through the silver

And the bell

With something to tell

Just do your best

It's the only way to keep that last bit of sanity

Maybe I don't have to be

Good but I can try to be

At least a little better than I've been so far

But when I drink

I spend the next morning

In a haze

But we only get

So many days

Now I have one less

Just do your best

It's the only way to keep that last bit of sanity

Maybe I don't have to be

Good but I can try to be

At least a little better than I've been so far

Oh at least a little better than I've been so far