I Will Sing You Songs Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Comebakatz 

Cover art for I Will Sing You Songs lyrics by My Morning Jacket

"Stories of the greater years... Fill your heart and soul with tears"

Is it actually the word tears and not the word beer. I have seen it written both ways. Beer doesn't make too much sense (unless you use the beer to drown your past). Fear works, but I haven't seen that used by any lyrics places. Most the lyrics places I have seen have it written beer and then tears is written in parenthesis. Anyone got any insight on this at all?