Lyrics to
Drinking Again

This version of Drinking Again was released by Bette Midler in 1973.

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Drinkin’ again.
Thinking of when you loved me.
Having a few.
Wishing that you were here.

Making the rounds.
Buying a round for total strangers.
Just being a fool,
’cause I keep hoping, hoping, hoping you’ll appear.

Sure I can borrow a smoke.
I can sit here all night and tell these jokers some jokes,
but who wants to laugh, who’s gonna laugh
at a broken heart?
Oh, my heart is aching, I swear it’s breaking.

And I’m drinking again.
Thinking of when you loved me.
And I’m tryin’ to get home
with nothing, nothing but a memory.

Yes, I’m dying to get home,
dying to get home.
And I got nothin’ but a bottle of beer,
and just my memory.

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Bette Midler has released many songs over the years besides Drinking Again. Bette Midler released songs from 1972 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Divine Miss M, Bette Midler, Songs For The New Depression, Broken Blossom, Live At Last, Thighs And Whispers, The Rose, Divine Madness, No Frills, Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!, Beaches, Some People's Lives, For The Boys, Gypsy, Bette Of Roses, Bathhouse Betty, Bette, Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook, Bette Midler Sings The Peggy Lee Songbook, and Cool Yule. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bette Midler.

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About Lyrics and Drinking Again by Bette Midler

The lyrics for Drinking Again are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Bette Midler. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Drinking Again have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Drinking Again - Bette Midler and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Drinking Again by Bette Midler in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Drinking Again" means the words set to the music of Drinking Again, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bette Midler. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Drinking Again and the lyrics to Drinking Again are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bette Midler who came here looking just for the lyrics to Drinking Again, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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