Down Among the Wines and Spirits Elvis Costello

[Verse 1]
Down among the wines and spirits
Where a man gets what he merits
Once he was written in letters of nine feet tall
Now he finds how far he's fallen

[Verse 2]
Since he set his mind on her completely
Oh well, I guess that you mustn't have seen him lately
Walking around with a pain that never ceases
He starts to speak and then he falls to pieces

[Verse 3]
Down among the wines and spirits
Where a man gets what he merits
Lives with the echoing words of their final quarrel
The vacant chamber and the empty barrel

[Bridge]
But as he picks himself up from a sawdust floor
Clicks his fingers to that swinging door
Suddenly he's calling out, "More, more, more
I'm twice the foolish man I was before"
Down among the wines and spirits

[Verse 4]
Bubbles escaping from him from the rim of a glass of grape
She sails through his memory just like a ship of shapely
As it started to sink, he was drinking to drown his sorrows
That fill his nights and they empty his tomorrows