Happy Hour

One dollar off your Inherited Misery!

  Two dollar shots of Instant Happiness!

City-wide specials offering everyone Hope

  For Society's Sobriety and loss of Faith!

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So call in Sick!—Invite your friends!

  Open a tab and Close the Past!

Turn down the Clock as it All Begins!

  Believe, believe!—the Hour will Last!

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Choose a favourite Song, and hit repeat!

  Convince, persuade all those who Doubt!

Let Confidence in the Economy Inspire All

  To get a fifth! a sixth!—a seventh round!

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A mini-Vacation of Intoxication!—

  Is waiting for You every day of the week!

Right Here is where your Failures can Dance

  Right off the Plank of Heaven's Cloud!

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And Lose yourself in Shameless Laughter!

  Dizzy yourself in Conversation!—

Tell it All!—like it Never, ever was!—

  And You, will Become, a God!

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And Fall back into the Softer Light—

  The Sun will soon be Down—

Alcohol!—Darkness!—has lifted the Weight

  Out of your Sunburnt Frown!

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Chaos holds the Controls Tonight!—

  Torrential Pours of Golden Beer!—

All is Beauty through an Emptied Glass!—

  In this Rythm Lies Finite Perfection!

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Yes!—let the Angels pour you More!—

  But remember to Never Gaze Within!

For Behind the Eyes of any one of us

  The Devil is Dancing in Another's Skin!

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And watch the Magic Fall from the Taps—

  Only with Poison are we Born Again!—

And there is no Shame nor anyone to Blame

  For Here, we've Drowned out Sin!

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And the Night is Young!—so let it Ride!—

  Last Call Waits for us like a Fever—

From Time-Drawn Sicknesses we naturally Hide

  But in the Hour, Lies, Forever—