Down Among the Wines and Spirits

Song Down Among the Wines and Spirits
Artist Elvis Costello
Album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane

Lyrics

[00:00.00] Elvis Costello - Down Among The Wines And Spirits
[00:00.50]
[00:01.82] Down among the wines and spirits
[00:08.17] Where a man gets what he merits...
[00:13.75] Once it was written in letters 'bout nine feet tall
[00:18.88] Now he sees how far he's fallen
[00:24.53] Since he set his mind on her completely
[00:30.39] But then I guess that you couldn't have seen him lately
[00:35.79] Walking around with a pain that just never ceases
[00:41.15] He starts to speak and then he goes to pieces...
[00:47.02] Down among the wines and spirits
[00:52.86] Where a man gets what he merits...
[00:58.62] Lives with the echoing words of their final quarrel
[01:04.06] The vacant chamber
[01:06.07] The empty barrel
[01:12.63]
[01:14.08] But as he picks himself up from a sawdust floor
[01:22.85] Clicks his fingers to that swinging door
[01:28.49] Suddenly he's calling out, "More, more, more..."
[01:39.59] "I'm twice the foolish man I was before..."
[01:45.53] Down among the wines and spirits
[01:53.95] Bubbles escaping from him at the rim a glass of grape
[01:58.25] She sails through his memory just like a ship of shapely
[02:04.93] And then as it started sink he drowns his sorrows
[02:10.72] That fill his nights and empty tomorrows
[02:20.80] But as he picks himself up from a sawdust floor
[02:29.47] Clicks his fingers to that swinging door
[02:35.17] Suddenly he's calling out, "More, more, more..."
[02:46.43] Speaks of invisible things he hardly credits
[02:52.36] Down among
[02:55.29] Down among the wines and spirits
[03:06.49]