I've Got to Get Sober

Well, the life we've been given and the way we been livin's Just a song that we write 'til we die Some people write songs on livin' just right But I write mine on just gettin' by And I'll go on a whim Start to writin' a hymn that sounds so sweet But the troubles and the sin of the world that we're in Knock me back off my feet I gotta get sober, I gotta start livin' right Oh, I don't know how it's gonna go But it ain't gonna happen tonight So pour 'em down strong until I drown And if I wake up tomorrow when that sun comes back around I'll be wishin' I was sober Well, the liquor and the bowl, they been numbin' my soul From the pain that the world's put on me But I know that, upstairs, there's an old man who cares And one day, well, He'll set me free And I'll go on a whim Start to writin' a hymn that sounds so sweet But the troubles and the sin of the world that we're in Knock me back off my feet I gotta get sober, I gotta start livin' right Oh, I don't know how it's gonna go But it ain't gonna happen tonight So pour 'em down strong until I drown And if I wake up tomorrow when that sun comes back around I'll be wishin' I was sober Well, the life we've been given and the way we been livin's Just a song that we write 'til we die