Bone Orchard - Why I Drink (Endless Ifs, Ands, or Buts) - 2023

Ⓒ Ⓟ Corcoran BMI 2023
Track from upcoming album, "Clinical Mayo". All instruments and vocals courtesy of M. Corcoran (the "last man standing").

Lyrics:

Endless sobriety has never been my cup of tea
While living in a society that thrives on hypocrisy

Get me out of here, get me off this ledge,
To someplace sane, to someplace safe, just no more hiding in a hedge.
This place is crazy, yeah, this place is fucking nuts.
Where's the door? Can't bear no more
Endless ifs, ands, or buts.
Endless ifs, ands, or buts.

I've lived a life that's such a joke, always going up in smoke.
'Cause I can't help but think out loud, about yelling fire in a crowd.

Yeah, I'm trouble 'cause I won't ever fit in.
But that's okay, I spend my days just buried deep in the clearance bin.
While contemplating that maybe it's me who's nuts.
Pour me one more while I explore
Endless ifs, ands, or buts.
Endless ifs, ands, or buts.

Drag queen story hour hiding in my shower
Demanding to know my pronouns.
While crowing like a rooster, "get a vaccine and a booster
Or we'll run your ass out of town".
Now l I can't use my flask if I gotta wear a mask,
So I guess I'll just hide underground
While they kill Betsy Ross on orders from the "boss"
'Cause she's an insurrectionist..... An insurrectionist....
FLAG THIS!!!!!

Stoke my paranoia as they pour across the border,
Taking over my hometown.
Now I don't speak the language so I'm at a disadvantage
When ordering the next round.
So I gotta give more hugs and I gotta eat more bugs
To help protect the atmosphere
From endless train derailments. I use eggs to make my payments
'Cause freedom is a "dirty" word..... Such a dirty word.....

Been working on my apathy while on vacation from my sanity.
Where I hope to learn to levitate so I can rise above the hate.

And when I look down and witness everything collapse,
I'll float away to a better day and to a better place perhaps.
While contemplating that maybe it's me who's nuts.
So, I'll pour one more while I ignore
Endless ifs, ands, or buts.
Endless ifs, ands, or buts.......