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Backsliding Blues

from My Blues Suck by Mister Graves

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It is hard to stop killing yourself with alcohol when you are addicted and when friends enable you.

The word joke here is in the use of a slide guitar.

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Backsliding Blues

I was doing so well,
Sober and strong and shit,
But all it took was one drink
All it took was five drinks.

Now I’m backsliding
Back into bad habits
Back into a world headaches
Back into a world of hangovers.

I’ve been here before,
Probably a few dozen times,
Maybe I’ll try to slow down
Maybe I’ll just drown.

I know it’s wrong for me,
And it feels worse every time
I got the backsliding blues,
It ain’t a victimless crime.

Do I check myself in,
At some recovery center?
And lose my damn job
Just to save my damn liver.

I’m all the way down, now.
I can see the bottom.
But nobody, nobody
Is laughing down at me.

I know it’s killing me,
And it gets worse every year.
I got the backsliding blues,
And I can FEEL the fear.

Yeah, I lost another gig
I got friends in the same place
We enable each other’s deaths
While we try to laugh in its face.

I got the backsliding blues
I don’t know how to make it through
I’m not gonna make it, dude
I’m not gonna make it through.

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from My Blues Suck, released February 3, 2019
All instrumental and recording by Mister Graves.

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