Pick me up (Acoustic Song Inspired By Rilke’s poem “The Drinker’s Song”)

Chorus:

You pick me up;

you pour me out;

you swallow me;

you shatter me.

 

Or throw me away

into the gutter;

that’s where I lay,

down in the gutter.

 

Verse 1:

 

Lying on my bed;

waltz within my head;

that was just my brain;

twisting down the drain.

 

Midnights circus clown;

woke up feeling down;

picked me up again;

don’t even remember what happened then.

 

Chorus:

 

You pick me up;

you pour me out;

you swallow me;

you shatter me.

 

Or throw me away

into the gutter;

that’s where I lay,

down in the gutter.

 

 

Verse 2:

 

Looking in the glass;

blurry eyes look back;

a man, anaesthetized

but underneath his eyes.

 

Something dark and deep;

a pain that will not sleep;

an absurd circus scene;

clown putting out a fire with kerosene.

 

Chorus:

 

You pick me up;

you pour me out;

you swallow me;

you shatter me.

 

Or throw me away

into the gutter;

that’s where I lay,

face down in the gutter.