Pointless Drinking - Amy LaVere, Jimbo Mathus, Jim Dickinson

Pointless drinking

Where does it end where to begin

Who are you friends, who are you foes

You’ll never know as long as you go

Pointless drinking

Till it seems like they’re all speaking poorly in Spanish

Who do you wish would totally vanish

And all you can do

I’m not an actor but I act like I am

I really am awful but I act like I’m not

Pretending my days hold the value of gold

But they only hold one thing and it’s all that I’ve got

Pointless drinking

Keeping my healthy dose of resentment

Keeping me waking with an empty repentance

Keeping me broke, broke as a joke

Pointless drinking

Took all the days that I should have felt young

Took all the joy from the songs I have sung

Took me awhile, took me awhile

Well I’m not a hater, I love you all so

But I look at myself and I don’t really know

Can I dig myself out of the wreck of my past

Will I ever unharden and stop showing my ass

Will those eternal bartenders ever stop filling this half-empty glass

Pointless drinking

Hate the effect, even more hate the cause

Hate to admit that I’m tragically flawed

I would keep going but let’s pause for the cause

Pointless drinking

Why do you do it, you always go through it

You drink to forget all the times you blew it

Think everyone knows, think everyone cares

Pointless drinking

Keeping you drunk on your dreams of great heights

From the bottom to the top back down overnight

You know it’s not right, you know it’s not right

Pointless drinking

It’s just the one thing you’re overachieving

Feels like you never will stop believing

That you’ll never win, you’ll never win