Day Drinker

(album: Alpha Games - 2022)

They find me face down in the bins taking out the trash
Still, I won't be told, copacetic, everything is fine
I was carrying too much weight, so I break, habit escalates
Sometimes, I enter rooms and forget why

Got me looking stressed, got me looking pressed
Got me looking vexed in the liquor aisle
Tripping over names, tripping over dates
Tripping over texts, so I style it out
Just the other day, what you tryna say?
What you tryna say? I was looking wild
Why does everyone keep buying me books?

Little brother knows the tango
Little bro can sing the blues
Little bro knows lots of things
That he's not afraid to use

He says he knows when I've been drinking
He says he knows when I'm lost
He says he knows when I am lying
And he knows when I am not
But it works both ways, brother
I know you're loving this
My little brother does a lot

My frenemy lives in town and I see him almost twice a week
So we shoot the shit and pretend that this is all it is
God hates the faint of heart, the weak-willed and the profligate
Do you remember summers learning Bible verse?

Got me looking stressed, got me looking pressed
Got me looking vexed, does my breath smell like wine?
Tripping over names, tripping over dates
Tripping over texts, running out of time
Spit it out, bro, what you tryna say?
What you tryna say? I was looking wild
What you need to watch is your conniving tongue

Little brother wrote a letter
Little bro prepared a speech
Little bro rehearsed it all
But he will not cop to it

He says he knows when I've been drinking
He says he knows when I'm lost
He says he knows when I am lying
And he knows when I am not
But it works both ways, brother
I know you're loving this
My little brother does the most