Tonight I'm getting drunk Juliana and I don't really know why -
But I want to write – sometimes writing comes like that,
Without really knowing why
Juliana one day we'll be far from here,
In another country, another career -
Anywhere you want.
Here I'll write, you drink some more
Where do you want to be?
I guess let's go first to Germany...
And let's have a drink with your family
And I'll write for them too – write a poem
Without knowing why.
But do we know why we do anything?
Why are we here right now or in Germany
Let's get the sausage and the gingerbread -
Hey oh! the door opens, someone pokes his head
Hey, come and join us whoever you are,
Take a chair and sit down.
Whoever told you you couldn't drink? Here drown
Some of that misery – we need some of this in our stomachs.
Without it, no idea what I'd write.
So let's drink Juliana, who cares why he's here
And who is he – is he a neighbour?
Oh he's gone, not keen, not a drinker
Not a writer either, oh well no one's perfect
One more glass not much more!
Otherwise can't go home you know...
Yeah Juliana you too, here – and then let's write.
I want to write about music but I'm much too drunk...
Come on, Juliana help me out and play some of that violin,
Play, play that violin Juliana...
Eyes are closing on the writing, on the music...
How to write in drinking, last drop to lick -
You have another bottle? Chin is dropping on my hand,
I'd go and get it if I could still stand
No regrets right Juliana? This is the life we wanted,
Where we want to be, getting drunk and writing...
And we'll pull through, of course you can!
I'll write and get drunk and you'll play violin.
You want me to sing? No, you sing.
I'll just continue writing - sing some of that opera...
What's left, is that gin? Get rid of that vodka,
Nothing left to mix it with and who in the world
Drinks this stuff pure? Let's write, write but can't...
Sickness and no cure, come, come let's drink into the darkness
Drink and forget it, what rhymes again – lit, tit, kit, shit?
No dick doesn't rhyme, why would you want dick?
More of that please, let's not talk about it.
Walk on and leave them behind.
The terrible blindness of time
Which sweeps everything away.
Why wallow in the low, let's will ourselves to smile!
Smile and the world smiles back at you...
Let's leave the drink for a while, sober up,
Drink some water and write something new -
I feel we're repeating ourselves, please another cup.
Come on Juliana let's try to focus!
But ah beautiful violin, beautiful drink, beautiful cold weather,
Yes too much, the drink has lost us...
Where were we again?
Let's not talk about men, no Juliana not about that
But we can write about love perhaps or – is it just wind
No, not love, that noise in the background -
Like a train rushing in the underground, like a rushing
In my ears or is it in my mind, can you hear the train
Can you hear that wind Juliana? Or am I going insane?
I stand still in your container suddenly in fear -
Writing cannot save me if death is this near!
No, no, why stop drinking? Quick, give me your glass,
It will drown the beating of our hearts,
The blood going around an around, wearing us down,
Time is drowning in the bottle, sinking suns, glowing darts
In the sky, let's shine bright in this dark town
As bright as this lamp right here – let's drink to our future Juliana!
Our marvelous and necessarily bright future,
Bright as money, as a hollow precious stone -
When we'll be rich and great and even more alone
Yes Juliana we'll dominate the world!
Why talk dark and moody?
We still have whisky and pen and paper,
Let's write and write and get much drunker
And play that violin -
The pen is slipping from my hand...
And my head is heavy, heavy you know?
Like a grapefruit about to fall.
No let's not talk about men, never talk about them
No I'm not sad, we're not sad at all
Come on let's drink, drink while we still can
Tomorrow has time to come, already
Already time can't wait
Promise me my friend
That tomorrow we'll drink
And drink and drink and write again.
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