DWI
Album Version Appears On Final Flight
Lyrics
Adam Gardner
Music
Adam Gardner
Producer
Adam Gardner
Mixing
Adam Gardner

 Album Version Sessionography
Cort Corbin bass guitar, guitar, backing vocals
Adam Gardner guitar, lead vocals
Stew Range drums
Album Version
Leaving for a raves about half-past-eight
Gonna get surrected
You know I just can't wait
Parents want me home 'till a quarter-o-one
You know by then
We'll get some good drinking done
Grab a few Sir Daniels as I head toward the door
Take a few swigs and I chug some more
Hop in my car and put it into gear
It's a hazy night
I can't see too clear

Drunk driving
Driving out of control
Neighbors caught by my recklessness
And all the lives that I stole
Swerving back and forth full speed ahead
How was I to know someone would end up dead?
I've been drinking and driving for years on end
It's a wonder I how lived to do it again

I get to the party
Meet up with my friends
We kicked one keg
And now we'll do it again
Everybody's drinking
We're all getting trashed
But tonight will be different
From other nights in the past
They tell me not to go
My reflexes were too slow
I had to get home before my parents caught me
They told me to stay
But I went ahead anyway
Everybody knows that's where it all began
I hit him tonight
As I ran through that light
I sped through the red
I should have heard what they said
One more soul I took with my
Drunk

It's true what they say
I made it through okay
I wish it were me
That had hit a tree
I wish I hadn't taken away any life
She was a mother
And a wife

Drunk driving
Driving out of control
Neighbors caught by my recklessness
And all the lives that I stole
Swerving back and forth full speed ahead
How was I to know someone would end up dead?
I've been drinking and driving for years on end
It's a wonder I how lived to do it again


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