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Alcohol Lyrics
Alcohol, my permanent accessory
Alcohol, a party time necessity
Alcohol, alternative to feeling like yourself
Oh alcohol I still drink to your health

I love you more,
Than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol

"That’s what I’m talking about"

Forget the cafe lattes
Screw the raspberry iced tea
A Malibu and Coke for you
A G and T for me

Alcohol, your songs resolve
Like my life never will
When someone else is picking up the bill

I love you more
Than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol

Oh alcohol
Would you please forgive
For while I cannot love myself
I’ll use something else

I thought that alcohol
Was just for those with nothing else to do
I thought that drinking just to get drunk
Was a waste of precious booze

But now I know that there’s
A time and theres a place where I can choose
To walk the fine line between self-control and self-abuse

(Chanting) Go, go go go go go

I love you more
Than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol

Would you please ignore
That you found me on the floor
Trying on your camisole

Oh alcohol
Would you please forgive me?
For while I cannot love myself
I’ll use something else

Would you please forgive me?
Would you please forgive me?

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twisted_fate
05-22-2002

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A great party song. I think I wore this song out my cousin's birthday party. It just fit in with the celebration!

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Stacey1417
06-11-2002

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This song is about how distructive alcohol really is and what a bad idea it is to drink. This song is kinda sarcastic....but BNL are against alcohol.

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sarahmansour
06-16-2002

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When I heard this I was shocked. Then I read this line:
"Would you please forgive me?
For while I cannot love myself
I’ll use something else "
It does make the song about how alcohol is the easy way out and they are not actually endorsing drinking.
PHEW!! (sigh!) BNL are my heroes! :)

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wrion
07-21-2002

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yep, i had to explain that to my friend when i put it on a cd i gave her for her birthday. drinking is bad.

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gracelyn
08-19-2002

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Well, I agree that the song's sarcastic but I don't think it's entirely anti-alcohol. There's nothing wrong with drinking in moderation. The song warns that it's easy to go too far and mess up on too much alcohol, but also makes the point that getting tipsy on occasion is damn good fun: it's all about finding "the fine line between self control and self abuse". I think the person in the song *is* developing a drinking problem but he is conscious of it and will probably seek help before he descends too far.

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thetruthaboutkat
08-25-2002

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dude i used to listen to this song all the time on the way to parties. the beat just put me in the mood. honestly, the lyrics are pretty blunt, but goddammit theyre so true. thats the lifestyle of those who live to get drunk. i still remember those days and what it was like living for the times you were wasted and blazed off your ass

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sarahmansour
09-11-2002

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I forgot to add:

** Steven Page for President **

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wrion
06-04-2004

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i love the "will you please forgive me?" oops, sorry, i was drunk

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erasedpoetry
10-14-2004

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Man, this is my theme song.

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shoeboxoflies
10-22-2004

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Well, if you guys saw 'Barenaked In America' (NO NOT THE PORNO!), you see steve talking about the song, and "you just sometimes go out and have 2, 3, 5, 17 drinks sometimes" and how you gotta walk that fine line between self control and self abuse.

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hippie-chick
11-19-2004

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help.me. i went to skool pissed 2day + hadda break down. now this song is stuck. it's staying. it wont go...

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littleermingdude
12-16-2004

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It's telling people in a sarcastic type of way that drinking CAN be good but don't abuse it. Its a way of them sharing their experiences and maybe warning others...

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amazon_0505
01-15-2005

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The song is about when you first start drinking and you realize that when you are drunk you can kind of be anyone you want. It also warns that you can't be drunk all the time cause it will mess up your life, you have to learn that your drunk self is not your real self. Sorry, that was just be babbling. Good song, GREAT band, live and on CD.

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punkassportz88
02-03-2005

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i always thought this song was about steve's problem with alcoholism

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GrtOne41
04-27-2005

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I always thought part of the song was about looking at a girl (or guy) through the infamous "beer goggles", especially with-

"I love you more
Than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol"

Meaning that he is now looking at a girl who may not be entirely attractive while sober but now that the alcohol has taken effect, she's gorgeous.

Guys, don't tell me you've never had this. A chick looks really average when you are sober but when you get drunk, she's a freakin' supermodel.

Girls, you know you do it too :).

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thisfuckingsong
06-20-2005

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I dont think it's ment to be 'alcohols kind of okay but dont go overboard guys' - barenaked ladies have really blunt lyrics. i think that's why it works so well with the music.

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prayingmantis84
07-15-2005

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"Beer - the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems"

-Homer Simpson

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AmberAmelia
04-10-2006

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Yeah I didn't think this song is so much against alcohol as just stating what it is. The singer obviously drinks/has drinken it alot and he's saying why he drank it and what it does to him and why people drink it. It's just about alcohol period, how it's fun but also sucks because of the way we abuse it and drink too often. Barenaked ladies did make a song called Marijuanaville as their own version to Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville... so I never thought they were against alcohol since they like(d) marijuana. But it's a fun song. It shows the good times and the bad times.

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Occams_Harmony
04-16-2006

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This song is great. A sarcastic look into an alcoholic's life. He loves beer, he loves alcohol. He can't love himself, but he doesn't care. He only loves life when he's drunk. He asks people to forgive to ignore his problems, and he plainly doesn't give a damn "when someone else is picking up the bill". BNL are great. This is a moral song.

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delial
08-09-2006

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one of my favorite songs of all time, and i agree, it is sarcastic but at the same time there's a glimpse of a truth a lot of people try to ignore at times. it's easier to escape from things you don't want to face through alcohol than actually talk about it while you're sober. a lot of people would rather drink that truth away than face it... i like to wonder whether or not the narrator is drunk or not at the time of singing this :P


"forget the cafe lattes
screw the raspberry iced tea
a malibu and coke for you
a g & t for me,"

some of my favorite lines EVER, heh.

"alcohol, your songs resolve
like my life never will,"

and therein lies some great truth, eh?

i would also like to add i love the chanting in the background that sounds a bit like "go go go go go" which is a common chant when you're wanting someone to chug a lot of beer. really adds to the song, i think.

Edited by delial on May 28 2008, at 02:29AM



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delial
08-09-2006

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i would also like to add i love the chanting in the background that sounds a bit like "go go go go go" which is a common chant when you're wanting someone to chug a lot of beer. really adds to the song, i think.

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Zamrod
02-28-2007

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This song is definitely sarcastic and is talking about the dangers of drinking.

"For while I cannot love myself
I’ll use something else"

Talking about people who have no self esteem and instead replace loving themselves with just drinking all of the time so they can ignore the fact that they are unhappy with their lives.

It is pointing out that when you are drinking a lot, you are basically getting close to self abuse.

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distantshores
07-05-2007

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I didn't see anyone put this so I'm going to go ahead and throw this out there. First off, I'm not saying any of this is wrong, I subscribe to the belief that they are encouraging moderation but that's beside the point. Another view of this song could be about a longstanding relationship with a woman.

"I love you more, than I did the week before I discovered alcohol"

If the song establishes that the singer really loves alcohol and he's been drinking it for a very long time, and now, as he's singing, he loves the woman more than a week before he EVEN discovered alcohol, he must love the woman a hell of a lot. Also, he discovered love first, not alcohol.

Anyway, that's just me.

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macman2511
11-07-2007

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Delial: I thought it said "scull scull scull", which has exactly the same meaning lol...

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Sifuasher
01-12-2008

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It's about alcohol, and it's obviously fairly anti-alcohol.

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