"One Drink At A Time" lyrics

Oh, come and thumb through me like a paperback
Then throw me on back on the pile
My phrases will come back to you in stages
One will come back after a while

Now I like getting stuffy sure
Almost as much as throwing them away
We in the swells will stay in lousy hotels
We show when the sun slinks on down
We'll dance and even if no one's watching
I'll present you, take a bow

My potency isn't poetry
It's more like sunset crashing down past the shrine
Look me in the eye and come get to know me one drink at a time
Look me in the eye and come get to know me one drink at a time
What's tragic can become magical
When the night swag is in, it's a cad

All my mysteries have no history
They're as dull as the sock on my foot
Each afternoon 'round five I will be soon to expire
I'm magnetized to the tavern, I'm hooked
I feel you're the same, you can capture
This life observed in its rapture and rhyme

Look me in the eye and come get to know me one drink at a time
Look me in the eye and come get to know me one drink at a time
What's tragic can become magical
When the night swag is in, it's a cad

Look me in the eye and come get to know me one drink at a time
Look me in the eye and come get to know me one drink at a time
What's tragic can become magical
When the night swag is in, it's a cad

When the night trips in, it's a cad
When the night is gone, it's a cad