Make Mine A Double
From a licentious part of my life, mostly passed now. But still occasional balm.
Make Mine a Double
Make mine a double,
Then make mine another double
It never means trouble
So make mine a double
Jamesons flowing straight
Jamesons into the night
So make mine a double
And keep your water.
Feet change direction
Head takes reflection
Eyes begin to see blood
So make mine a double.
The toilet gets further away
The body begins its own sway
But there’s no dismay
So make mine a double
Its a time to stagger
Its no time to beg
but the whiskey had me by the legs
So make mine a double.
Words become blurred
Phrases slurred all around
I don’t care I’m already bound
So make mine a double
Another double
and me mind goes
to darkened fields of death
so make mine a double.
Sat near the jukebox
Words are sung along
“There’s no brown eyes waiting for me”
So make mine a double.
Time comes to tell
Its the end of my hell
Or maybe just the start
So make mine a double
Sounds the bell
A call to tell
Over here please
And make mine two doubles!
You had me at ‘Make Mine a Double’… I loved the driven nature of this, spurred on by the repeat. I guess we’ve most of us been there?
cheers,
Jim
Thanks Jim yes I’ve been there more than I should have, but its also a fair description of sometime all of us have lived as you quite rightly say. Thank you for the kind words. I wrote it pissed on Jamisons one night took about five minutes. Sometimes it’s like that isn’t it?
Yes indeed…
You mean inspired on Jamisons!
Doubles all round.
Doesn’t have to be Jamisons, although that’s my choice. But if yer gonna drink scotch then you have to have doubles. Its just what happens to me every now and then. And many others in many different ways, they double up on what they enjoy.Thank you for reading my thing Bhi.
I found this very sad. I ‘got it’ totally of course but the progression through the changing mental states and physical difficulties…the many reasons someone can justify the decision to know they are on the slippery slope but still continue…affects me deeply. I come from the Highlands where we were weaned on whiskey lol but I cannot enjoy the reading of it. As nursing students we were well known for liking a drink to work hard and play hard…but never to this extent. Probably because we had to work in the morning. 😉 I also think of my mother and… Read more »
Thanks Storm. I’m sorry it made you sad. I’m sure you did see plenty in the highlands. I was at sea for many years and never once sailed on a ship without at least one alcoholic. And we all colluded, drank with them, covered for them when they couldn’t function. You know Shane Macgowan drank his first full bottle of whiskey aged eleven. We also had the work hard play hard ethos. most of us coped and it was a merry go round. Maybe that also explains why so many, and I mean a lot, of seamen were married to… Read more »