Drunkard's Prayer Lyrics

Lyric discussion by think-carpe-diem 

Cover art for Drunkard's Prayer lyrics by Over the Rhine

I believe she's uses the opposite of usual metaphors to describe what she's thinking.

where usually we hear that God/Jesus fill us, she talkes about hour she hungers, and the hunger is deep "on my bones".

she starts out using biblical metaphores "your my hunger, your my wine" and then goes on to say"your my whiskey from time to time" and I think she says 2 things here. One that God/Jesus are more then the few metaphors described in the bible to help us understand them, but once you understand them you see them in other things. For her, like whiskey is a source of comfort and alcohol a lifestyle for a drunk, so is God to her.

The second verse talks about how she yearns for God, and He's the hunger she has, and she's lonely with out Him.

Then she goes on to talk about "Truth" and His "Word"(bible) and how they relate to being intoxicated because your so caught up in it and it effects your mental state, decision making, and is obvious to those around you what's happening to you.

Then of course she shows us that the words she's describing aren't a physical thing, but an internal thing.

Then she goes on to say that she "craves" "movement" in her life, but the movement is His movement, or His influence. She's also saying that right now she's feeling low, and lonely, and hungry for Him.

Then she goes on to say that in the "motion" or in Him, she wants to "down, and be lost not to be found" which this is usually a term we use to describe someone who doesn't know God, but she seeks to know God so much, be so close to him that to those she knows, and even her previous self to "drown" in Him, and be "Lost" in Him.

Then she finishes with the first verse, to emphasize how it's God that fills her thirst, even when the thirst is a desperate one from time to time.