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The last horizons I can see are filled with bars and factories
and in them all we fight to stay awake
Drink enough of anything to make this world look new again
Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves
She had nothing left to say so she said she loved me
I stood there grateful for the lie
Drink enough of anything to make this girl look new again
Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves
Turn summer trees to bones and ice
Turn insect songs against the night
With words we build and words we break
I'm drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves
Maybe I could use you to reassure myself
I wouldn't wish this indecision on anybody else
Drink enough of anything to make this world look new again
And when the sin smiles how could it be wrong
The last horizons I could see are now resigned to memories
I never thought I'd still be here today
Drink enough of anything to make myself look new again
Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves
and in them all we fight to stay awake
Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves
I stood there grateful for the lie
Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves
Turn insect songs against the night
With words we build and words we break
I'm drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves
Maybe I could use you to reassure myself
I wouldn't wish this indecision on anybody else
And when the sin smiles how could it be wrong
The last horizons I could see are now resigned to memories
I never thought I'd still be here today
Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves
Song Info
Submitted by
ang On Jan 24, 2002
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Perhaps the best song on a multi-platinum album. Never was released as a single, due to the alcohol-related suicide of Doug Hopkins and the poignancy of the lyrics. Very simply a wonderful song about being an alcoholic, and drinking both during celebration and tragedy (gardens and graves). Drinking in hopes of changing his outlook on his relationship, the world, and finally himself, but never finding happiness. "The last horizons I could see are now resigned to memories" symoblizes the final hope he had that things would change is finally gone. He's so brutally honest and candid about the pain he's in, and how badly he wants more. You don't need an eloquent vocabulary to make such beautiful lyrics A+
@imnoone No other song depicts pain and addiction so eloquently as this.
@imnoone No other song depicts pain and addiction so eloquently as this.
"She had nothing left to say so she said she loved me I stood there grateful for the lie"
The two best lyrical sentences ever.
@CrueTrue I am reading this almost 9 years later. I have always thought this as well, since the firtst time I heard it.
@CrueTrue I am reading this almost 9 years later. I have always thought this as well, since the firtst time I heard it.
@TetragrammatonGhost And 9 years later, I stand by what I said back then ;)
@TetragrammatonGhost And 9 years later, I stand by what I said back then ;)
@CrueTrue That's number 2 "when the sin smiles how could it be wrong" is my favorite
@CrueTrue That's number 2 "when the sin smiles how could it be wrong" is my favorite
Man, if we only still had Doug Hopkins around to inspire us with lyrics like these. I know I can relate: getting drunk when I'm happy, getting drunk when I'm sad. Sometimes we try so hard to make changes and never getting anything or anywhere.
Awsome song, Doug Hopkins was the man
....pouring out some whisky for Doug tonight (sorry, don't have any gin handy!)
We miss you, Doug. Too few people out there could conjure up the kind of lyrical imagery you could.
This song just killed me when I first heard it. I remember the feeling of going stale in the wrong town, and Hopkins just nailed it perfectly. I remember being at a company holiday party the day Doug Hopkins' obituary showed up in the New York Times, and pouring whisky on the bar for him.
The biggest bummer: I actually wrote a condolence note to the Gin Blossoms that night. (This was before Hey Jealousy broke big.) I never heard from them...not even a form letter.
Doug Hopkins.....
This was one of your few "Moments of Clarity"
One of the best songs ever though the lyrics is a bit depressing...
the gin blossoms have very nosaltagic sounding songs. This is another upbeat, a little depressing gin blossoms' song. I can relate to this. I am not a alcoholic like Doug Hopkins was, however i can remember those days of drinking for every reason i could. COming from a very, very small town. I was drinking to forget, to remember and to make everything look as different as it could.Love love this song, brings back memories of being in my late teens and early twenties. and how innocent i thought the world would be if i could only get out of my small town. HA HA, life isn't innocent. it's beutifully tragic.