This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Whiskey, gin and brandy
With a glass, I'm pretty handy
I'm trying to walk a straight line
On sour mash and cheap wine
So join me for a drink, boys
We're gonna make a big noise
So don't worry about tomorrow
Take it today
Forget about the check
We'll get hell to pay
Have a drink on me
Have a drink on me
Yeah, have a drink on me
Have a drink on me (on me)
Come on
Dizzy, drunk and fightin'
On tequila, white lightnin'
Yes, my glass is getting shorter
On whiskey, ice and water
Yeah, so come on, have a good time
And get blinded out of your mind
So don't worry about tomorrow
Take it today
Forget about the check
We'll get hell to pay
Have a drink on me
Have a drink on me
Yeah, have a drink on me
Have a drink on me (on me)
Get stoned
Have a drink on me
Have a drink on me, yeah
Have a drink on me, come on
Oh
Gonna roll around
Gonna hit the ground
Take another swing
Have another drink
Gonna drink you dry
Gonna get me high
Come on, all the boys
Make a noise
Have a drink on me (have a drink on me)
Have a drink on me (have a drink on me)
Have a drink on me (have a drink on me)
Have a drink on me
Have a drink on me
Have a drink on me
With a glass, I'm pretty handy
I'm trying to walk a straight line
On sour mash and cheap wine
So join me for a drink, boys
We're gonna make a big noise
So don't worry about tomorrow
Take it today
Forget about the check
We'll get hell to pay
Have a drink on me
Have a drink on me
Yeah, have a drink on me
Have a drink on me (on me)
Come on
Dizzy, drunk and fightin'
On tequila, white lightnin'
Yes, my glass is getting shorter
On whiskey, ice and water
Yeah, so come on, have a good time
And get blinded out of your mind
So don't worry about tomorrow
Take it today
Forget about the check
We'll get hell to pay
Have a drink on me
Have a drink on me
Yeah, have a drink on me
Have a drink on me (on me)
Get stoned
Have a drink on me
Have a drink on me, yeah
Have a drink on me, come on
Oh
Gonna roll around
Gonna hit the ground
Take another swing
Have another drink
Gonna drink you dry
Gonna get me high
Come on, all the boys
Make a noise
Have a drink on me (have a drink on me)
Have a drink on me (have a drink on me)
Have a drink on me (have a drink on me)
Have a drink on me
Have a drink on me
Have a drink on me
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Have a Drink On Me Lyrics as written by Angus Mckinnon Young Brian Johnson
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song is pure bullshit. I've tried buying a drink and charging to AC/DC and it DOES NOT WORK! They just look at you weird and then call the bouncer...
Well I dunno if there's any reason why the wrote this song, kind ironic when you think about it. Only a few months before this album was released their former lead singer got incredibly drunk, choked on his own vomit and died.
Buttttt...Still a nice feel good song, one of my favorites.
uhhhhh muzzy, this song was written to salute bon and and his lifestyle, like back in black
angus young, as ive heard in fan sites is no drinker. he drinks tea, a lot of it. must be why he goes phycho on the solos on concerts
This is the only song on the album written with Bon Scott in mind as a tribute, most people think Hells Bells and Back in Black are about Bon, which is false
So what's Hells Bells about then?
i hate to think bon would die choking on his vomit i thought it was hypothermia its sad he died such a lonely death i mean he was left in a freaking car all night ...not cool R.I.P
awesome song though
Just wondering Boo Urns, where you get your information at? Everything I've ever heard says that Hells Bells and Back in Black are.
This is a tribute to Bon Scott - Bon with his twisted sense of humor would have found it hilarious.
The previous posts about how Bon died are true although there is speculation that drugs were involved. Bon had been hanging out with the band UFO and dabbling in heroin.
this song was apparently written by Bon Scott. if you get the Iron Man CD. Read the book inside. it was supposedly the last song he played before he died. lav it :)
All songs in the Back in Black album were created by Brian Johnson and ALL were a tribute to him, yes, even Shake a Leg. This song was never made by Bon Scott.
The title "Have a Drink on Me" is an old Australian saying to someone who has passed on. This being Bon Scott, Brian thought it'd be best to share a toast to the mighty Rock 'n' Roll legend, not through an actual drink, but through a song.