Lyrics for Drinking with the Girls as interpreted by flashfyer

Drinking with the Girls Lyrics
You thought you had it made
Like the songs would write themselves
But your words ran out of ink
And your fingers lost the chords
Now you lay around so bored
And you hit the bar at 2:00
And you waste your time on girls
They know they're getting used
They love the pain that you create
The drunken fights you fabricate
Because they've been hurt too, worse than you
You told them not to get involved
Some bullshit excuse to escape unbruised
But they move on, while you're stuck
Hating your self-deprecation, your self-centered songs
The space you've created
Between your words and your actions
These loveless liasons have left you alone
All you've gained is a loss

You wish and you wish and you wish
You could regain a love you never had to begin with

You wished and you prayed and tried to stay in love
Or at least in your lover's good graces
Just to keep it going
Because when they leave, the drinks get stronger
And much, much more frequent
For the sloppy drunk boys
They hide in their basements
Where the songs write themselves
Yeah, it used to be easy
Before we got lazy and drink with the girls
"No, I know it's not your fault
No, you said not to get involved"
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you need to believe
In all these self-inflicted tragedies
You scribble them down on that miserable sound
I guess this is the good life

Your self-deprication has made it's translation
These lyrics are done

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Wezzul
07-02-2002

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Hmm... seems to be some stuff missing from this lyric..... i hear more than what is typed out...

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Wezzul
07-02-2002

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Hmm... seems to be some stuff missing from this lyric..... i hear more than what is typed out...

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mikeska22
03-05-2003

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I tried to figure out the mumbled words in the background of the begining...theres a few grey spots and things im not sure of, but it seems right.

have they made it for you
this will never ...you
darling you just cant fool them (me?)
maybe it would go away
it never went away
it will always be there

i cant make anything out of the last one though. Anyone have any ideas?

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southern_state
04-30-2003

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i think this song is about conor.

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Stevo
05-09-2003

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that's kind of obvious that part of it's about conor... hiding in the basement where the songs write themsleves, but i think it's about tim, too. just look to the ugly organ lyrics to get the 'hating yr self deprecation' bit.

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dorareever
04-20-2004

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haha conor!!
nope, it's about tim!!
conor sort of refers to the album and especially this song in "nothing gets crossed out" though.

it's about tim like most of the stuff people say is about conor!!

one of the sloppy drunk boys can be conor, but it's not like he's the subject of the song.

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coldwind
06-09-2004

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Everytime Tim writes anthing about songwriting, people think it's about Connor. It makes me wonder. Like, what? Tim's not also a song writer? Is he not also self-deprecating and such? Or do people just gravitate towards Connor that much? I don't now. I'm a bigger Tim fan, myself.

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dorareever
06-12-2004

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I "gravitate" more towards Conor, but it seems to me that Tim usually writes very much about himself, even more than Conor does. Actually I'm aware of Conor writing about Tim (like in something vague, he said that himself! ) than the other way around.
Conor is not as self-centered for me. But I know people probably would say I'm wrong. Just my impression.

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BeccaBee
06-30-2004

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i love this song.
tim is amazing.
and i'm pretty damn sure its not about conor.

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straylightrun
11-23-2004

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I think the last line to the background at the beginning is "until you can't breathe" and then he just yelps...which may/may not be an actual lyric a la jeremy enigk =)

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brokenspoons
01-21-2005

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I agree that this song is not about connor, but more about the singer (tim) talking about himself in the second person. or third person. One of the two. In any case, it is a amazing song...

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promisexkept
01-29-2005

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I heard somewhere that Tim has a kid-true?

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my_own_parasite
02-05-2005

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i think he does have a kid, i read somewhere where he was talking about his kid...and then there's the song sierra, which is about his daughter..i am assuming it is true.

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pokemostar
04-08-2005

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i don't understand how people can think its about Coner its Tims concept album about his troubles with the ladies and booze... coner isn't the only sloppy drunk who writes lyrics.

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patiencebabe
06-01-2007

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"I guess this is the good life"

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mrs-mojo-risin
05-31-2008

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are there a lot of guys out there like tim or he is one in a few? i know people relate to artists' music all the time and say "omgz this song was totally written for/about me!" but with the good life, i have never heard a song that i couldn't relate almost 100% to. i feel as though i am almost a girl version of tim, or the protagonist of his songs, just less charming.

if i could ever meet a man like the one in his songs i think we would fall in love instantly and have a beautifully disturbing relationship.. like the one in 'album of the year', haha.

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