Quotes / Ode to Intoxication

Vodka! You're feeling stronger!
Vodka! No more feeling bad!
Vodka! Your eyes are shining!
Vodka! You are a real man!
Vodka! Wash away your tears,
Vodka! Removes your fears!
Vodka! That woman's gorgeous!
Yeah vodka!

Drinking is good for you!
You are a gun train!
Drinking is good for you!
It is a bomb of nature!
Drinking is good for you!
Not anymore lonesome!
Drinking is good for you!
You will feel awesome!!

Korpiklaani, "Vodka"

[chorus]
Drunk at the MCG! I was...
Drunk at the MCG! Oh, I was...
Drunk at the MCG!
Blind drunk at the MCG!

One day final, eighty-four,
Drank so much my neck was sore,
Cracked a coldie, went for a taste,
Opened my mouth, missed my whole face, but I was...

[Chorus]

Windies tour, second test,
Got smashed, but we did our best
Still remember the catches we missed
Crawled home, thoroughly smashed

[Chorus]

Another test, seventy-eight,
Don't remember walking in the gate,
Think we played against Pakistan,
Drank so much I sprained my whole arm!

[Chorus]

Fourth final, B&H Cup,
Drank so much I threw it all up!
Never came out of the bar,
Couldn't find my way back to my car, but I was...

Drunk at the MCG! I was...
Drunk at the MCG! Oh, I was...
Drunk at the MCG!
Completely smashed at the MCG!

[Repeat chorus, Fade Out]]

— Greg Champion, "Drunk at the MCG" (to the tune of "Born in the USA")

Back at the house, a bottle is found,
And opened in honour of those who have drowned,
While we who have not are stricken with guilt,
And dutifully see that not one drop is spilt!
We're drinking to life, we're drinking to death,
We're drinking 'til none of our livers are left!
We're wending our way down to the spirit store;
We'll drink 'til we just can't drink anymore!

Raise your glasses high!
Drink the cellar dry!

—The Divine Comedy, "A Drinking Song"

"Country music, I think you have a drinking problem."

— Todd in the Shadows, "Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2020"

Tom Petty: (strumming acoustic guitar) Lyrics are the hardest part of songwriting, but when you come up with something meaningful and heartfelt...

Homer: Boring!

Tom: Will you stop saying that?

Homer: But rock stars are supposed to be about drinking and getting drunk and boozing it up.

Apu: And girls that have legs and know how to use them.

Otto: And why I can't drive 55.

Tom: You just want mindless, generic rock?

Homer: Precisely.

Tom: Ugh...

(Tom switches to electric guitar and plays)

Tom: See that drunk girl speeding down the street...

(everybody cheers)

Tom: She's worried about the state of public schools...

(everybody boos)

Tom: She likes to party, she likes to rock...

(everybody cheers)

Tom: She prays that our schools don't run out of chalk.

(everybody boos)

— The Simpsons, "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"

Let's smoke that bowl, hit the bong
And then take that finger off of that hole
Plug it, unplug it, don't strain
I love you Mary Jane

— Cypress Hill, "Hits from the Bong"

Not fortune found, nor fate divine,
Come close to toping the juice of the vine.
With cherry crew, we sip and sway,
Let's tip the tankard and waste the day.
Reeraw! Well ye ken, our toils can wait for a time.
We saw the folly of men who rather than revel repine.

— Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, "Juice of the Vine"

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